The land of the “bushes” was at Vlaardingen and Enkhuizen; a few are found also at Maassluis and Delfshaven, that is: along the Meuse and in the North-West part of the Zuiderzee. The country of the “Bom” was Scheveningen, Katwijk and Noordwijk, along the flat beach of the North Sea. That of the “sloop” is Middelharnis, Zwartewaal and Pernis, while the “lugger” is met everywhere. The old “howker” was found particularly at Maassluis and the “Loggerbom” or “Lelybom” at Scheveningen. An erroneous idea of the Netherlands fishing fleet would be formed by supposing that only the 724 fishing vessels given in the above list belonged to it. Alongside of these boats, are still found many smaller boats used exclusively for this industry. If a glance be cast over the Report on the Netherlands Ocean Fishery for 1905, it will be seen that, in this year (p. 342), the fleet contained in all 5334 vessels with a total tonnage of 234,766 tons and a total of 20,141 men in the crews. These figures for 1891 were, respectively: 4427, 164,357 and 15,482. +------------------------------------------------------------+ |Situation of the Netherlands Fishing Fleet and of its Crews.| +------+----------------------+----------------------+-------+ | YEAR | NUMBER OF VESSELS | TOTAL TONNAGE | CREWS | | -- | -- | -- | -- | | 1905 | 5334 | 234766 | 20141 | | 1904 | 5781 | 215873 | 21228 | | 1903 | 5922 | 218249 | 21467 | | 1902 | 5938 | 215660 | 21225 | | 1901 | 5851 | 199248 | 20164 | | 1900 | 5719 | 195950 | 19498 | | 1899 | 5661 | 191530 | 19232 | | 1898 | 5385 | 186554 | 18709 | | 1897 | 5318 | 184576 | 18387 | | 1896 | 5211 | 181953 | 17895 | | 1895 | 5189 | 179782 | 17643 | | 1894 | 5151 | 176649 | 17286 | | 1893 | 4902 | 172603 | 16700 | | 1892 | 4647 | 167549 | 16142 | | 1891 | 4427 | 164357 | 15482 | The small fishing boats work on the North Sea, along the shores of Friesland and Groningen, on the maritime rivers of Zeeland and of the province of Holland as well as on the Zuiderzee.