STATISTICAL METHODS 



II 



two Supervising Collectors appear in this list, which shows that 

 returns are obtained from 157 fishery ports in England and Wales. 

 Any statistical account of the fisheries of the waters of North- 

 western Europe which leaves out the operations of foreign fishing 

 vessels is certain to be one-sided. Taking pre-war figures (for 1912) 

 for the fisheries of the Western and Northern states of Europe, 

 including the Baltic, but excluding the French fisheries in the 

 Mediterranean, we get the following table : — 



Yield of the Sea Fisheries North- West Europe (1912)^ 

 (in thousands of cwts.) 



^ Fish Trades Gaaette, 20th October, 1917, p. 25. 



