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APPENDIX J: BELGIUM 



caught by Belgian fishermen are greater than in any other country. (Compare as an 

 example, the figures given for Nieuport, Oostduinkerke etc. for 1895 and 1896 with those 

 for 1901—1902). 



The following table gives the total value of all the Belgian seafisheries for the years 

 under consideration. As the value of the cod fishery was not given in the Belgian stati- 

 stics, it has been necessary to give an estimation of that value. This estimation is based 

 on a comparison with the value of the cod caught by Dutch longliners: fr. 0-60 pro kg. 

 by all means not too low a price. 



Table IVll. Tola! value of the Belgian seafisheries (N. B. One franc = 10 d., 25 fi-ancs = 1 £) 



Finally, a table is inserted giving the value of the fish sold at the Ostende market. 

 Though the number of boats, which land the fish, seems to be registered daily and in a 

 regular way, and though the value of the fish landed by steamers and by sailing boats is 

 known also, it is impossible to calculate the value which the sale represents pro boat, as 

 the number of landings pro boat is not known. 



At the Ostende market, fish landed by foreign fishermen (English, French, Dutch and 

 German) is also sold. The Table LVIII gives the total value of all the fish landed, and 

 separately, the value of that landed by Belgian and that landed by foreign fishermen. 



Important from a commercial point of view are the fishmarkets of Anvers and Bruss- 

 els also. As it is only fish sent from other markets — Belgian and foreign (large quan- 

 tities of fish arriving from Ymuiden, Geestemiinde, Hamburg etc.) — which are resold at 

 the above named markets, these markets from a fishery point of view are of no consequence. 



c. Regarding the number and the type of boats 



The information to be had from the available statistics, with regard to the number 

 and the type of the boats, is rather scanty. The following table is taken from the 



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