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Table showing the Various Kinds of Fish caught, and approximately the Total Quantities and Value of Fish landed, at the different Fishing Ports for the Year ended 31st March, 1918.

Whaling.

(Compiled from the figures given in the District Inspectors' reports for the year.) Name of Tort. Kinds of Fish caught. Total Weight. Cwt. Russell .. .. Mullet, sohnapper, crayfish, kahawai, kingfish, garfish, tarakihi.. 2,300 llokianga .. .. Mullet, sohnapper, kahawai, flounder .. .. .. Not su Whangarei .. .. Schnapper, mullet, hapuku, trevalli, kahawai, flounder .. 3,000 Kaipara .. .. Mullet, sohnapper, flounder .. .. .. .. 5,600 Auckland .. .. Sohnapper, mulct, flounder, crayfish, gurnard, trevalli, John- 114,480 dory, kahawai, tarakihi, hapuku, rock-cod, buttcrfish. kingfish, bairaoouta, garfish Tauranga .. .. Sohnapper, hapuku, mullet, trevalli, kahawai, garfish, flounder Not su Oisbornc .. .. Schnapper, tarakihi, gurnard, flounder, sole, crayfish.. .. 4,470 Napier .. ... Flounder, sole, sohnapper, gurnard, blue cod, red cod, mullet, 22,500 butterfish, hapuku, mold, trumpeter, ling, barraeouta, kingfish, trevalli, warehou, crayfish Wanganui .. ... Schnapper, bluo cod, hapuku, flounder, mullet, kahawai .. 230 Foxton .. .. Flounder, mullet, schnapper, whitebait .. .. .. Not su Wellington .. .. Hapuku, hake, schnapper, tarakihi, kahawai, trumpeter, blue , 17,200 cod, red cod, flounder, sole, warehou, butterfish, horse-mackerel Picton .. .. Hapuku, blue cod, herring, flounder, butterfish .. .. 2,000 Blenheim .. .. Sole, tarakihi, red cod, ling, flounder, moki, warehou, herring, ! 700 kahawai, schnapper, garfish, crayfish, hapuku, rock-cod, blue j cod, butterfish, whitebait Nelson .. .. Blue cod, hapuku, flounder, gurnard, herring, kahawai, garfish, | 276J moki, crayfish Westport .. .. Hapuku, schnapper, blue cod, kahawai, sole, herring, flounder, j 981 whitebait, crayfish (65 sacks crayfish) Ureymouth .. .. Sole, groper, flounder, schnapper, skate, ling, herring, red cod, | 128| whitebait (1,000 pints whitebait) Hokitika .. .. Whitebait, herring, flounder, kahawai .. Whitebait 1104; Other fish ' 50 Kaikoura .. .. Hapuku, trumpeter, moki, ling, blue cod, sole, flounder .. ; 4,000 Rangiora .. .. Whitebait, flounder, herring .. .. Whitebait : 56J Other fish . 2 Kaiapoi .. .. Whitebait, flounder, kahawai .. .. Whitebait 357A Other fish , 75 Total Value. £ r. d. 2,050 0 0 pplied. 2.000 0 0 3,260 0 0 39,305 0 0 pplied. 5,224 0 0 14,143 JO 6 617 13 4 pplied. 15,300 0 0 1,700 0 0 800 0 0 281 0 0 1,648 0 0 327 5 0 878 0 0 60 0 0 4,200 0 0 62!) 12 0 J1 6 0 2,000 0 0 120 0 0 pplied. 1,400 0 0 12,250 0 0 New Brighton .. Whitebait .. .. .. .. .. .. j Not su Southbridge .. .. Flounder, herring, red cod .. .. .. .. j 300 Lyttelton .. .. (»roper, ling, red cod, conger-eel, flounder, sole, trevalli, herring, 12,400 garfish, butterfish, moki, eel, whitebait, shrimp Akaroa .. .. Groper, blue cod, trevalli, moki, butterfish, flounder, sole, cray- 2,280 fish, ling 't'imaru .. .. Groper. sole, flounder, brill, barraeouta, kingfish, gurnard, ling, 7,200 red cod 1,892 0 0 7,200 0 0 Oamaru .. .. Groper, red cod, blue cod, moki, warehou, barraeouta, ling .. 6,389 Mocraki .. .. Groper, red cod, blue ood, moki, barraojuta, ling (crayfish, 2,640 345 macks £140) Dune din and Port Gr per, kingfish, ling, barraeouta, blue cod, red cod, moki, 37,200 Chalmers trumpeter, bream, tarakihi, trevalli, mullet, garfish, elephantfish, kahawai, flounder, sole, brill Invercargill .. .. Blue cod, red cod, groper, flounder .. .. ,. 660J Bluff .. .. Blue cod, red cod, groper, flounder, sole, moki, trevalli .. 5,911 Stewart Island .. Blue cod, groper, buttcrfish, moki.. .. .. .. 5,389.J Chatham Islands .. Blue cod, hapuku .. .. .. .. .. 5.954J 3,425 0 0 2,040 0 0 31,611 0 0 900 0 0 8,571. 0 0 6,116 8 II 5,216 0 3 Totals .. .. ..• .. .. .. .. .. 264,841} 264,841 J 175,176 16 0

Number of Whaling-station. Whales taken. Species. Yield of Oil. (Quantity of Bonedust or Fertilizer produced. Total Value. Whangauiumu... ... 52 Marlborough Sounds and q» Cook Strait Kaikoura ... ... 9 I I Humpback 36 humpback 1 right whale 6 humpback 3 right whale TonH. 240 40 tons bonedust a s. d. 5,040 0 0 j 203 (. 6 ° I 5,609 0 0 1 ton whalebone 1,440 0 0 400 0 0 Totals ... ... 98 98 503 12,489 0 0