72
THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
Provinces
Above 50 Above 100 JAbove 200
and not and not and not
exceeding exceeding exceeding
100 acres 200 acres 500 acres
Above 500 acres
Total
r . ^ ri896 Lemster j^g^^
TVT 4. n896 Munster . -J ,Qgy
Ulster -^^^^^ Ulster . . ^jgg^
^ 0,4. n896 Connaught . n 897
Total of Ireland < , gg«
Increase or decrease / in 1897 . . \
14,031 14,010 22,449 22,526 14,356 14,416 6,407 6,502
6,892
6,894 9,180 9,266 3,717 3,699 3,208 3,182
2,821 2,814 2,741 2,704 1,031 1,032 1,704 1,695
412 415 374
384 272 268 492 496
124,384 125,345 128,588 128,930 200,043 200,009 122,649 122,691
57,243 57,454
22,997 23,041
8,297 8,245
1,550 1,563
575,664 576,975
Increase 211
Increase
44
Decrease 52
Increase 13
Increase 1,311
In 1890 the total number of occupiers was 524,210 ; in 1896, 533,043 ; in 1897, 533,514.
II. Fisheries.
The quantity and value of the fish landed on the coasts of the United Kingdom in five years have been : —
—
1894
Tons 351,198 309,438 41,796
1895
1896
Tons 377,534 306,907 42.103
1897
1898
England and Wales .
Scotland
Ireland
U.K. (excluding shell-fish) .
England and Wales .
Scotland
Ireland. ...
U.K. (excluding shell-fish) . U.K. (including shell-fish
Tons 363,179 305,353 34,900
Tons 397,305 250,087 40,941
Tons 404,002 327,261 46,653
702,432
703,432
726,544
688,333
777,916
£ 5,756,205 1,876,495 303,317
£
4,981,960
1,565,821
267,894
£ 5,129,089 1,763,991 274,945
£
5,166,780
1,569,138
265,950
£
5,568,978
1,627,622
283,944
6,815,675 7,260,588
7,168,025 7,600,096
7,001,868 7,436,518
7,480,544 7,910,761
7,936,017 8,493,498
1
This statement does not include salmon. Of the fish landed in England, about 79 per cent, in weight and 78 per cent, in value are landed on the east coast.
The number of men employed in the British fisheries (1896), including the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, was approximately (in 1895, 114,320 ; of these 41,022 were English, 40,793 Scotch, and 26,407 Irish. There were 26,649 (in 1895, 26,923) registered boats.
