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foundland, chiefly through the Piraeus and Patras. Information on 

 Greek fisheries is given in Piscifacture Marine et les Poissons de la 

 Lagune de Missolonghi, par P. Panagiotopoulos. Ministere de 

 Teconomie nationale. Athdnes, 1916. 



Holland 



The Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce is re- 

 sponsible for fishery administration ; the chief officials being the 

 Scientific Adviser and the General Inspector of Fisheries. There 

 is also a Board of Fisheries of not more than twenty-one members 

 nominated by the Crown. The members of the Board are not in 

 receipt of a salary, but travelling and subsistence allowances are 

 granted to enable them to attend the Board meetings. There is a 

 salaried secretary and four committees, for sea fishery ; for coast 

 fishery ; for inland fishery ; and for legal and economic questions. 

 The Board has the right to ask the Scientific Adviser in Fishery 

 matters and the Chief Inspector of Fisheries to attend the meetings 

 for advice ; but neither of these officials has a vote. There are 

 also certain special councils composed of practical fishermen, but 

 these are mainly concerned with the inland fisheries. Much of the 

 research work is carried on at the Marine Station of the Zoological 

 Society of the Netherlands, the results of these researches are 

 generally published as appendices to the Annual Reports of the 

 Board of Fisheries.^ A special scientific bureau has been established 

 in connection with the international investigations in the North 

 Sea. The vote for scientific investigations amounted in 1912 to 

 £4,153. In 1911 there were 11,819 Dutch fishermen engaged in the 

 sea fisheries, with a fleet of 149 steam, 12 motor and 1,124 sailing 

 vessels. At the North Sea ports of the Netherlands, there was 

 landed 2,311,331 cwt. of sea fish of the value of £1,378,597.* 



The outbreak of the great war brought immense profits at first 

 to the fisheries of the neutral nations. There was an enormous 

 demand for fish from Germany, and in 1915 and 1916 HoUand 

 poured supplies into Grermany. In 1917 there was a remarkable 

 change. Owing to the destruction of numerous trawlers and luggers 

 by German submarines and miaes, and the closing of great tracts 

 of the North Sea by the German and British barred zones, fishing 

 was confined to the home waters. The quantity of sea fish landed 

 in Holland in 1916 amounted to 165,513 tons of the value of 

 £6,637,226, but in 1917 this declined to 33,579 tons, value £1,374,810. 



' Verslag van den Staat der Nederlandsche Zeevisscherijen. 



* See also a monthly journal, Mededeelingen over Visscherij, and for other scientific 

 papers, see "Jaarboek van het Rijksinstituut voor het onderzoek der Zee," and 

 " Verhandelingen uit het Ryksinstituut voor het onderzoek der Zee." 



