Appendix K of Rapport et Process-Verbaux des Reunions (RPVR) Vol. 3.

Part I of this work (see link below) has given an account of the present-day condition of the fisheries in the countries bordering on the North Sea. At the same time, the sources of information general as well as statistical have been displayed, and the actual information which the statistics of each country yield has been subjected to a preliminary critical review. Some notion has been given thereby of the value of existing statistics, and the way has been cleared for the general summary which has to bring the principal data together.

The first portion of this work has given an account of the present-day condition of the fisheries in the countries bordering on the North Sea. At the same time, the sources of information general as well as statistical have been displayed, and the actual information which the statistics of each country yield has been subjected to a preliminary critical review. Some notion has been given thereby of the value of existing statistics, and the way has been cleared for the general summary which has to bring the principal data together.