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increase of £2800 in the value of the Flounders, Plaice, and 
Brill caught by the liners is also a noteworthy feature. 
The weight of the flat fishes caught by the trawlers was 
180,709 ewts., and the value £221,212, an increase of 15,624 cwts., 
but a diminution of £10,841, the price having been 3s. 7d. per 
ewt. less than in1903. Lemon-dabs are almost wholly captured 
by the trawlers, and while there was a slight increase in quantity, 
the value showed a decrease of 7 per cent. on 1903. Turbot, 
which had shown a gratifying return of 8955 cwts. and £32,081 
in 1903, fell this year by 2000 cwts. and £8,739. 
The total quantity of fishes landed in 1904 was 7,947,829 cwts., 
a record in the Fishery Board’s returns, and exceeding by 
1,081,801 cwts. that of 1902, hitherto the highest on record. 
The value, however, was not proportionate, for whereas the 
average per cwt. in 1902 was 7s. 3d., it was only 5s. 7d. in 
1904. The Board accounted for the diminution by the prepon- 
derance of Herrings which amounted to 5,488,456 cwts., the 
highest figure during the decade, yet the price was low, viz., 
3s. 9d., the enormous total catch thus falling short of that of 
1902 (the next highest) by £271,566. Such are the vicissitudes 
of the fishing-industry. The white fishes formed a record, both 
in quantity and value, 
Though there were ten trawlers less than in 1908, the returns 
of trawled fishes presented an increase of 139,600 cwts. Steam- 
liners, on the other hand, showed an increase during the decade 
of 350 per cent. in number, and 5380 per cent. in value, a greater 
increase than that of the trawlers. The total number of persons 
employed in the fisheries was 86,621, an increase over 1903 of 
2068. Of these, 31,984 manned the sailing-boats, 1639 the 
steam-liners and net-fishing craft, and 2637 were on board the 
trawlers. 
The quantity of round fishes captured by the liners in 1905 
amounted to 619,194 cwts. or 9704 ewts. and £4674 less than 
in 1904. Thus the tendency in the quantities captured by the 
liners to decline still continued, and were only 50 per cent. of 
what they were ten years ago. It is noteworthy also that stormy 
weather interfered with the catch of Haddocks by the liners, and 
that the decrease in quantity (27,530 cwts.) was accompanied by 
a diminution in value (£14,649) ; whilst the diminished captures 
