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 Grenaa. The year. Fishing-vessels. Gilleleje. 



The year. 



Fishing-vessels. 



1SS5 





781 



1886 





956 



1887 





1 225 



1888 





1334 



1 889 





1769 



1890 





1996 



1S91 





1458 



1 892 





954 



1893 ■ ,- 



30/ 



Ml 



823 



The year 



Dues. 



1 885 



161 Kroner 



1886 



350 — 



18K7 



458 — 



1 sss 



475 



1889 



542 — 



1890 



498 — 



1891 



533 



1892 



294 — 



1893 



424 — 



At Gilleleje other fisheries, as for instance the herring-fishery, are of 

 groat import beside the plaice-fishery; hut both here and. especially, at Grenaa 

 there is evidently a culmination about the year 1890, tin- some year as the cul- 

 mination at Altona. 



These statistics are not set forth here in the hope that they will convince 

 anyone who doubts that the stock of plaice is decreased in the Cattegat, but 

 only to give a hint to those who will look forward to future times with 

 the view of the matter which I have got by and by while studying these 

 things on sea as well as on land. 



For, how are we able, without accepting the supposition of a decrease. 

 in certain respects, of the stock in the Cattegat, to explain the diminution in 

 the number of saleable plaice which a cutter can fish in one den/ on the for- 

 merly good fishing-grounds at Lsesa. in the Aalborg cove, nay even in the 

 German Sea (the Skager Rack on the shores of the northern Jutland)? See, 

 as to this question, the official statistics for 1891, p. 36; it shows, for a series 

 of years, a considerable diminution in the daily fishery till about half of what 

 it was before. 



How. finally, are we to explain that our plaice-markets are not quite over 

 clocked, when we know that both the number and the size of the fishing-vessels 

 in these 15 years have been considerably enlarged; that the fishing-power of 

 their gear has been doubled many times by means of long lines on the plaice- 

 seines and steam-winches to haul these in; that the number of fishing-grounds 

 has been extended from rather a small part of the Cattegat till the whole of 

 this sea, where plaice are living and where stones do not make it impossible 

 to draw the seine, and that moreover, the Skager Rack, from the Skaw along 

 the western shore of Jutland as far as the Limfjord, has been included in the 

 fishing-territory of our plaice-cutters V 



The fishing-grounds have become several times larger than thev were 



