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to it, the fleet fishing in the North Sea on the 1. of March 1903 was composed of 1538 

 vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 158,928 m^ measuring each on an average 103 m^ and 

 manned by 12,152 fishermen. As in several communes where fishing vessels are at home, 

 the ambition to register new boats is greater than that to blot out the ships that are lost 

 for the fishing-industry, it is easily understood that the number of ships of the official list 

 is slightly higher than it is in reality, 



3) Forms of publication. 



The statistics on Dutch Sea-Fisheries are not published as such, but only to illustrate 

 the annual reports. They can hardly be said to have been put in a distinct form, giving 

 summaries only of monthly or yearly landings in a special harbour or at a special market. 



III. General information which may be deduced from the statistics ^ 

 1. Value of fish over a period of years 



General remark. As the statistics foi the value of the fish landed in Dutch har- 

 bours are more complete and perhaps more reliable than those for the quantities, and as 

 the only way to give figures for the quantities in several cases, has been to calculate them 

 from the figures for the value, the tables for the value and a short discussion of the way 

 in which they have been arrived at are given first. The division of Dutch fisheries in 

 Herring-, Longline- and Trawlfishery has been maintained in this part of the review. 



a. Herringfishery. The value of the herringfishery in each year is to be found 

 in the «Verslag.). This value represents that of the cure-herring, together with that of the 

 salt-herring landed by Dutch ships. That of the cure-herring includes the value of the 

 barrels and the salt, which together have a value of f. 2-25 (on an average) for each barrel 

 of cure-herring. The total value for each year as given in the "Verslag" has been diminished 

 with the amount of n x f. 2-25, n representing the number of barrels of cure-herring 

 landed in each year. Of this amount, f. 1-85 comes for the barrel and f. 0-40 for the salt. 



The so-called "steurharing" (salt-herring) is prepared with salt but not packed in bar- 

 rels. Its value has been diminished with that of the salt only and this represents a value 

 of f. 0-50 for each 1000 herrings. 



b. Longlinefishery. The fish caught with hooks is landed partly in salted, partly 

 in fresh condition. 



The salted fish is landed in Vlaardingen (the main part), in Maassluis, and some 

 other places. The "Verslag" gives annually the total quantities for the different species of 

 fish and the prices which have been paid for it pro "ton". A barrel of salted fish (cod) 

 contains about 35 fish, dehcate parts of which (so-called "kibbelen", "keelen" and 

 "lippen") are removed and put in special barrels: 40 tons cod (1400 fishes) yield moreover 

 4 tons "kibbelen" and 1 ton "keelen" and "lippen". A barrel of salted haddock contains 

 about 180 fishes (without heads). The value of a barrel of salted cod or ling or haddock 

 comprises, as in the case of the herring, the cost of the barrel and that of the salt. The 

 cost of the barrel is again f. 1-85 (on an average), for the salt, f. 0-50 is to be reckoned 

 pro ton; so the value of each barrel of salted fish (cod, ling, haddock etc.) has been 

 diminished with f. 2.35 to find the value of the fish in unprepared condition. 



' I think it is unly fair to state here that I received, iu working out tliis summary, valuable assistance from 

 different sides and especially so from Mr. Hubr. K.ikkort, Vlaardingen and Mr. J. M.Bottemanne, Ymuiden. 



