262 THE SEA FISHERIES 



Broadly speaking, the fisheries of France are divided for statistical 

 and administrative purposes into the " Grande Pfiche " and the 

 " Petite Pfiche." The former term is applied to the cod and whale 

 fisheries almost exclusively. The cod fisheries carried on by French 

 fishermen on the Banks of Newfoundland are well known, and an 

 account of these by Duhamel has already been referred to (p. 12). 

 The " Petite P^che " corresponds to some extent to the term coastal 

 fishery as applied to British Fisheries. An historial account of the 

 legislation affecting the coastal fisheries of France has been given by 

 Pizzetta.i The effect of these regulations and particularly of the 

 decree of the loth May, 1862, so far as they relate to the prohibition 

 of capture and sale of undersized fish is given in a British Govern- 

 ment Blue Book entitled " Sea Fisheries (Restrictive Legislation in 

 Foreign Countries)."* 



Germany 



There was no branch of the Imperial Government in Germany 

 charged with fishery administration. A fishery society, the 

 Deutscher See Fischerei-Verein, was used by the Central Govern- 

 ment for the general development of the sea fisheries. The Reichs- 

 tag voted the Society between 1886 and 1910, both years inclusive, 

 the sum of ^362,500 for the development of the sea fisheries, the 

 average per annum being ;fi3,7oo. The vote for 1913 was £23,000. 

 Since German fishermen were compelled to serve in the Navy, it 

 follows that the development of the sea fisheries was a close concern 

 of the naval authorities.^ Fishery charts were prepared by the 

 naval authorities for the use of the fishermen ; in many other ways 

 the naval authorities fostered the growth of the sea fisheries.* In 

 1885, the year before the See Fischerei-Verein was founded, Germany 

 possessed only one fishery steamer. In addition there were 

 " numerous " sailing boats of small size in the Baltic, and a few 

 hundred sailing boats in the North Sea. 



In 1907 Germany possessed 924 registered fishing boats, of which 

 284 were steamers ; the crews amounted to 7,182 men. In addition 

 there were 14,726 unregistered vessels of smaller size, manned by 

 22,269 fishermen. 



Greece 

 In spite of its sea coast, Greece is a fish-importing country. 

 There is a considerable import of dried fish from Norway and New- 



1 La Pisciculture fluviale et maritime en France, p. 358- Paris, 1880. 



2 No. 271, London, 1901, p. 153- , ^ .^ t^- i. ;t „„ -Rr^rH rier 

 » ■■ Die Weiterbildung der Hochseefischer wahrend ihrer Dienstzeit an Bord der 



Fischereischuzfahrzeuge," von v. HoUeuffer. Mitteilungen des Deutschen SeefischerM 



* Abhandlungen des Deutschen Seefischerei-Vereins, Bd. II. Berlin, 1910- 



