88 CAPTURES BY LINERS AND TRAWLERS, 1895. 



year, viz. of 157 cwts. and £6,517, showing that the market- 

 values had likewise altered. 



The trawlers captured 79,835 cwts. of flat fishes = £112,749, 

 a less quantity than that caught by the liners in weight by 

 31,176 cwts., but exceeding it by the large sum of £52,982, 

 that is, their flat fishes were nearly twice as valuable. The 

 total quantity exceeded by 2,175 cwts. that of 1894, not a large 

 increase, but fully maintaining the position, especially as it was 

 accompanied by an increment of £20,862 in value. The total 

 of flat fishes proper was 74,927 cwts. = £111,652, exceeding 

 that of 1894 by 3,045 cwts. and £20,892. The cost of flounders, 

 plaice and brill had increased, since with a surplus of only 

 860 cwts. over 1894 the value was raised by £11,202. Lemon- 

 dabs had an increase of 1,440 cwts. and £7,153, and 556 cwts. 

 and £2,105 were added to the totals of the turbot of the 

 previous year. A slight increase occurred in halibut, whereas 

 the liners had fallen 2,709 cwts. behind the returns of 1894. 

 Skate, again, were less by 870 cwts. and £30; while other fishes, 

 as in the case of the liners, had diminished by 5,151 cwts. and 

 £5,151. 



The value of the round fishes in 1895 is 7^. 2d. per cwt. for 

 the liner and 8.9. for the trawler, the difference {lOd.) between 

 the two kinds of fishermen being less than the previous year 

 {2s. 5d.). In the case of flat fishes the liner received 10<§. 9d. 

 per cwt., the trawler 285. 3d, the disproportion (175. 6d.) being 

 greater than in 1894, and due to high prices as well as to 

 increase in turbot and lemon-dabs. 



The grand total of all kinds of fishes (other than shell fishes) 

 landed in 1895 was 6,107,044, a total less by 81,728 cwts. than 

 in 1894, but this decrease does not affect the liner and trawler, 

 since if we deduct herrings, sparlings and mackerel (viz. 

 4,095,695 cwts.) 2,011,349 cwts. caught by liner and trawler 

 are left, a quantity exceeding that of 1894 by no less than 

 174,203 cwts. Of the total thus captured, 1,479,654 cwts. 

 pertained to the liner, and 531,695 cwts. to the trawler, the 

 former showing an increase on the previous year of 110,877 cwts., 

 the latter of 83,326 cwts. Yet these results have been attained 

 by a diminished number of fishing (sailing) boats, viz. 194, and 



