Kraks vejviser 1928 Handelsregister

11 Danish Fisheries.

• The possibilities in this brancli of industry have always been particularly good by reason of the extensive coast line of the country, but during the middle ages it was of far greater importance for the economy of the country than has been the case in more recent times. Only during the last decades has this industry again made substantial progress thanks largely to the employment of motor fishing craft. The number of such craft employed in fishery has increased very considerablv since 1895 as will be seen from the following figures: 1895 1900 1910 1920 1920 9 200 ■' 2000 4870 ♦5.300 This development has also been conductive to promoting the building of motor boats in this country which has now become an export factor of importance. Inshore fishery was carried on in 1926 by about 3000 small motor boats, about 2700 sailing boats and about 7500 rowing boats. The deep sea fishery is carried on by means of about 2200 large and small, motor craft. The sea fishery valnes during the years 1913—26 were as follows:

1952 in miil. Kr. 10.4

192(i in miil. K 13.8

1913 in miil. Kr. 6.3

Flatfish......................”. . . . Cod and Haddock........... Eels.................................... Herrings and Mackerel .. Other f is h ........................

7.2 6.6 4.5 4.7

2.1 4.7 2.9 15

6.0 5.3 3.6 1.6

35.8

26.9

16.0

Over half the fish cauglit in 1926 were exported. In addition to the foregoing the oyster fishery in the Liinfiord which is a monopoly, and also the production of fish ova and the.rearing of young trout and other'fresfrwater fish are of no small importance not least for the exports of the country.

Foreign Trade of De nmark. As mentioned in the foregoing the development of the productive trades which has taken place in Denmark during the last 10 years necessitates the carrying on of a very large foreign trade considered in proportion to the size of the population. To this comes the faet that the country and particularly the Capital Copenhagen, by virtue of its situation, becomes a main station on one of the most important high-roads of international commerce. The development of Denmark’s foreign trade during the last fifty years has been as follows: Ycar Total import Mili. Kr. Total export Mili. Kr. 1875................... ............... ’ 228 172 1885................... ............... 249 162 1895................... ............... 364 269 1905................... ............... 623 534 1913................... ............... ..855 . 721 1926......... ......... ............... 1620 V 1517 The difference between the imports and exports is equalized mainly by the freiglit earnings of Danish shipping. Of the indicated value of the exports for 1926, about 7,3 °/0 or 111 mili. Kroner represents the re-export of foreign goods. \ During the revival of Danish trade which has taken piaee in the last decades the tradition from the time of the great periods of commercial prosperity in the latter part of the eighteenth century, has been continued by the establishment of large over-sea trading companies, the principal of which is The East-Asiatic Company Ltd. (founded 1897) with a share Capital of 50 mili. Kroner. This company has in the course of time started a number øf affih’ated companies which comprise shipping and ship-building and other activities in connexion with forestrv, plantations, manufactories and trade in different parts of the world.

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