346 BRITISH FISHERIES 



2. Exports of Fish, the Produce of the Fisheries of the 

 United Kingdom, in 1 902 ^ 



Re-exports of Fish (i.e. exports of foh previously 

 Foreign and Colonial Produce, 1 902 ^ 



' Annual Statement of Trade. 



^ Statistical Tables and Memorandum for igo2 (1903, 112). 



Notes. — The bulk of the fish exported firom the British Islands consists of cured 

 herrings ; thus, of the total export in 1902 of .£^3,706,592, nearly ;^3,ooo,ooo 

 represents the value of this fish. The greater portion of cured herrings exported 

 are fish caught and cured in Scotland. The total number of barrels exported in 

 1902 was just over two and a quarter millions, and of this enormous quantity 

 about one and a half million were shipped from Scottish ports. Germany is the 

 principal customer, receiving well over a million barrels. Then come Russia, 

 Norway and Sweden. The principal ports to which cured herrings are exported 

 are Stettin, Konigsberg, Hamburg, Danzig, St Petersburg, and Riga. 



