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Thirty-eighth Annual Report 



89 per cent, in quantity, but of only £443,812, or 13 per cent., in value, 

 as compared with the figures for the preceding year. The value is the 

 highest ever recorded, but it, of course, represents a very much less 

 favourable result than in 1918, the average price per cwt. working out 

 at 35s. 6d., or 23s. 8d. less than in the preceding year. 



Of the increase in quantity 90 per cent, was referable to trawlers, 

 whose number, as already stated, received a large accession during the 

 course of the year. 



The totals of the white-fish, fishing during the last decade are given 

 below : — 



Year. 



Quantity. 



Value. 





Cwts. 



£ 



1910 



. 2,968,598 



1,491,339 



1911 



. 3,391,316 



1,540,539 



1912 



. 3,331,799 



1,666,380 



1913 



. 3,296,257 



1,824,741 



1914 



. 2,949,008 



1,778,973 



1915 



. 1,540,345 



1,585,717 



1916 



. 1,258.390 



1,772,561 



1917 



. 1,007,-369 



2,021,817 



1918 



. 1,128,623 



3,342,811 



1919 



. 2,134,335 



3,786,623 



Trawling has contributed to the foregoing result as follows : — 



Year. 



Quantity. 



Value. 





Cwts. 



£ 



1910 



. 2,102,031 



1,102,976 



1911 



. 2,439,108 



1,113,820 



1912 



. 2,392,692 



1,232,193 



1913 



. 2,541,948 



1,424,115 



1914 



. 2,191,387 



1,333,834 



1915 



953,503 



1,040,726 



1916 



735,862 



1,117,056 



1917 



528,276 



1,152,742 



1918 



495,401 



1,569,454 



1919 



. 1.401.283 



^ i;.,383,158 



The balance, as follows, 



has been taken by lines and by 



ler than trawls : — 







Year. 



Quantity. 



Value. 





Cwts. 



.£ 



1910 . 



. 866,567 



388,363 



1911 . 



. 952,208 



426,719 



1912 . 



. 939,107 



434,187 



1913 . 



. 754,309 



400,626 



1914 . 



. 757,621 



445,139 



1915 . 



. 586,842 



544,991 



1916 . 



. 522,528 



655,505 



1917 . 



. 479,293 



869,075 



1918 . 



. 633,222 



1.773,357 



1919 . 



. 733,052 



1,403,465 



