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least 20% of the haddock landed in Germany during igo2 and iyo3 came from Iceland 

 and the Fœroe Isles. If similar proportions are brought from those places by the English 

 and Scottish liners and trawlers, nearly one fifth of the total quantities stated for later 

 years have not been taken in the North Sea. The amount of uncertainty in the figures 

 is thus very large, but it certainly seems as if the catches were at a maximum in 1895 — 96, 

 the years which saw the introduction of the otter-trawl, and that they have since then 

 steadily declined. If the quantities brought from Iceland have increased since that time, 

 as the German statistics would indicate, there seems every possibility that the quantities 

 taken from the North Sea have really decreased. 



It is only from the German and Dutch statistics, that any information is forthcoming 

 with regard to the relative proportions of the various sizes which enter into the compo- 

 sition of the catches. The data for Holland are the more valuable, because the smallest 

 class of haddocks is included with the whiting in the statistics for Geestemiinde and is 

 not represented in Table XX. It will be seen from these tables, that the proportion of 

 small haddocks landed is very great and has increased within recent years. It may be 

 mentioned also, that, in the Scottish Fishery Board Report for 1901, note is made of the 

 large quantities of small haddocks which were being landed in Scotland. 



Whether this means that the same process is going on with regard to the haddock 

 as has been noted in the case of the plaice, namely, that the quantities taken of the 

 large are decreasing or at most stationary, whilst those of the small are increasing, cannot 

 be told from existing information with certainty. 



Table XIX. Quantities of haddock (G. aegkfinus) landed at North Sea ports for the years 



and countries mentioned, in kilograms 



Denmark 

 (west coast) 



Germany 



Holland 



England 

 (east coast) 



Scotland 

 (east coast) 



Total 



1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1 901 

 1902 

 1903 



3,178,000 



3,300,000 



2,377,000 



1,409,000 



1,059,000 



727,000 



511,000 



597,000 



1,503,000 



8,823,000 



10,285,000 



12,774,000 



14,449,000 



15,126,000 



13,971,000 



12,411,000 



9,988,000 



8,950,000 



8,576,000 



10,566,000 



12,395,000 



3,084,000 

 3,193,000 

 3,131,000 

 3,110,000 

 4,176,000 

 2,946,000 

 2,563,000 

 1,623,000 

 1 ,880,000 

 2,380,000 

 4,780,000 

 5,791,000 



95,680,000 

 98,135,000 

 108,573,000 

 121,103,000 

 126,879,000 

 125,976,000 

 128,875,000 

 130,350,000 

 122,805,000 

 117,763,000 

 101,115,000 



34,930,000 

 33,638,000 

 39,975,000 

 49,175,000 

 48,274,000 

 42,677,000 

 37,092,000 

 39,194,000 

 38,157,000 

 41,774,000 

 45,220,000 

 50,076,000 



142,517,000 

 145,251,000 

 164,453,000 

 191,015,000 

 197,755,000 

 187,947,000 

 182,350,000 

 182,214,000 

 172,519,000 

 171,004,000 

 162,278,000 



Notes on the Tables showing quantities of haddock 



Denmark. A small quantity of whiting {G. merlangus) is included with haddock. 



The quantities are sometimes stated in pounds, sometimes in numbers. From the 

 corresponding values, it has been possible to change the numbers into pounds and these 

 into kilograms. 



Germany. The quantities for earlier years have been partly estimated. 



The quantities imported are not included here, and the quantities of the coast fishery 



