502 Eleventh, Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



salted cod, 413 barrels of salted ling, €67 barrels of salted haddock, and 

 1S8J barrels of plaice. The total value was : — Fresh fish, 219,749 florins ; 

 salted fish, 317,197 florins = 536,946 florins. Salted cod and dried cod 

 are exported in large quantities to Belgium, Germany, and France. 



The coast trawl-tishing in the North Sea — at Scheveningen, Katwijk, 

 and Noordwijk — was prosecuted by 225 boats, and the value of the 

 produce at the three places named was 283,363 florins. The total con- 

 sumption of salt for the sea fisheries in South and North Holland was 

 19,235,239 kilogrammes. The total export of fresh fish (chiefly to 

 Belgium) was 4,312,000 kilogrammes; the export of shrimps amounted 

 to 1,442,000 kilogrammes, of which 1,284,000 kilogrammes were sent to 

 England, and 154,000 to Belgium. The shrimp-fishing in the Schelde 

 and Zeeuwsche river was so successful that the fishermen were able to 

 earn as much as 45 florins per week. The exports of shell-fish in 1891 

 from Zeelaud were as follows: — Oysters, 1,348,891 kilogrammes, or 

 17,985,212 oysters, valued at 1,348,891 florins, of which 338,357 kilo- 

 grammes came to England; mussels, 1,580,283 kilogrammes, or 18,591 

 hectolitres, valued at 278,865 florins. The industry of sardine-curing has 

 been started in Holland by the erection of a factory at Nieuw-Helvoet. i 



In an Appendix is a valuable report, by Dr P. P. C. Hoek, on the 

 anchovy and the anchovy fishery on the Zuiderzee. 



In the special report on the fisheries in the Schelde and Zeeuwsche 

 rivers* will be found an amount of interesting information concerning 

 the fisheries of the region. On the West Schelde alone, the take of shrimps 

 amounted to 1,200,000 kilogrammes, and it is stated that England is the 

 chief market for the shrimps taken by Dutch fishermen. 



At the Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion 

 of Dutch Fisheries, held at Amsterdam last year, a number of fishery 

 questions were discussed,! but mostly of local interest, such as the 

 formation of harbours, placing of buoys, removal of wreckage, close times 

 for mussel-beds, &c. It was agreed to petition the Government to fix a 

 minimum mesh of 18 millimetres for the ' kuil ' nets and ' f uiken ' used 

 in the Zuiderzee, and the question of the capture and destruction of 

 immature fish in the North Sea was also discussed. 



• JAPAN. ■ 



In a previous report I referred "to tine importance of the Japanese 

 fisheries, and to the supervision which was exercised by the Government. 

 A proof of the thoroughness with whi*'h the Japanese authorities attend 

 to their fisheries is afforded by the publication of an extensive report in 

 four volumes, and ten parts descriptive of them, % a copy of which has 

 been courteously forwarded by M. de Bunsen, H.M. Charge d'affaires. 

 Each part deals with the fisheries of a particular area or region, and is 

 copiously illustrated by plates representing the chief varieties of fish and 

 shell-fish, the fishing apparatus, &c, and also contains a chart of the 

 fishing grounds. Unfortunately for my present purpose, the text is in the 

 Japanese character ; but I hope to have it examined by an expert before 

 our next Annual Beport appears. 



* Verslag omtrent den Toestand dcr Visscherijcn in de Schelde en Zeeuwsche Stroomen 

 in 1891. 



t Verslag van de Zesde JaarlijTcsche Algemccne Vergadering van de Verecniging ter 

 oevordering van de Nederlandsche Visscherij. 



X Preliminary Report upon the Fisheries of Japan. Agricultural Bureau, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and Commerce, Imperial Japanese Government, 1891-1893. 



