H—ls

Methods of Capture Of the total catch (446,265 cwt.), 88,310 cwt. (19-79 per cent.) was landed from steam-trawlers, 128,195 cwt. (28-72 per cent.) from motor-trawlers, 88,980 cwt: (19-94 per cent.) from Danish-seine boats, while motor-vessels (line and net fishing) accounted for 137,153 cwt. (30-74 per cent.) and row-boats 3,627 cwt. (0-81 per cent.). The total quantity of wet fish caught by each of the common methods of fishing is shown below (the figures in parentheses represent the 1947 quantities and values): —

Landings at Poets Ports where the total landed catch is -in excess of 10,000 cwt. are shown in order of importance in the table below. The percentage of the grand total is also included :

Auckland. —A total of 142,766 cwt. of wet fish, was landed at Auckland. This represents a very slight increase of 462 cwt. over the 1947 total of 142,304 cwt. Of the thirty-seven Danish-seine boats, five changed to trawling during the year; hence the decrease in the quantity caught by this method from 90,824 cwt. last year to 86,191 cwt.. in this year was expected. This total of 86,191 cwt. consisted of 69,548 cwt. of snapper, an increase in quantity and in proportion over last year's figure of 67,757 cwt. for this method. Three steam-trawlers, one of which operated for ten months, the other for nine months, and the third for eight months, caught a total of 41,892 cwt., whereas last year the total was 45,309 cwt. Motor-line-fishing boats landed 4,287 cwt., compared with 2,998 cwt.. for the previous year, and the netting boats 1,580 cwt., compared with 3,050 cwt. in 1947.

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Method of Fishing. Quantity. Value. Cwt. Percentage of Total. £ Percentage of I Total. 1 Trawl Danish seine Long and hand lines Set and 4 ra g nets 216,505 (204,654) 88,980 (96,715) 102,496 (102,452) 38,284 (34,479) 48-51 (46-69) 19-94 (22-07) 22-97 (23-37) 8-58 (7-87) 396,597 (376,738) 130,112(131,915) 232,862 (231,397) 78,763 (62,446) [ ! 47-30 (46-95) 15-52 (16-44) 27-78(28-83) 9-40 (7-78) Totals 446,265 (438,300) "838,334 (802,496)

Quantity. Value. Port. Cwt. Percentag e of Total, j p Percentage of Total.. 1948. 1947. 1 1948. I 1947. 1948. 1947. 1948. 1947. Auckland Wellington Port Chalmers Napier Timaru Bluff and Stewart Island Thames Tauranga Gisborne Lyttelton Chatham Islands Nelson 142,766 40,117 38,460 27,254 20,661 17,638 17,105 13,763 13,260 12,520 12,490 11,314 142,304 44,291 44,849 23,525 21,216 19,523 13,035 7,086 10,926 17,387 9,412 10,040 31-99 8-99 8-62 6-11 1 4-63 3-95 3-83 3-08 2-97 2-81 2-80 2-54 | i 32-47 10-11 10-23 5-37 4-84 4-45 2-97 1-62 2-49 3-97 2-15 2-29 208,079 91,255 59,404 53,329 53,615 44,323 31,858 20,064 21,432 27,487 15,262 20,074 186,504 96,784 70,583 46,099 55,016 50,624 22,200 9,178 17,356 37,695 12,248 19,429 24-82 10-89 7-09 6-36 6-39 5-29 3-80 2-39 2-56 3-28 1-82 2-39 23-24 12-06 8-8fr 5-74 6-86; 6-31 2-77 1-14 2-16 4-70 1-53 2-42 Total 367,348 363,594 82-32 82-96 646,182 623,716 77-08 77-73