Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XXXVIII, pack 0020, section...

Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XXXVIII, pack 0020, section XV. Trade - The Blockade. Fishing areas and fishing vessels.

Folios 1: Title page.

Folio 2: Explanatory note. During the period of the War, papers of a confidential nature in the office of the C-in-C Home Fleet were filed in Packs (numbered separately from the non-confidential records) in a Series 001 to 0042 inclusive. Copies of relevant telegrams were filed in these packs, but a complete set of all telegrams was also maintained. The secret packs were re-arranged by the Grand Fleet secretarial staff in February 1919, when papers considered unimportant were removed and destroyed, and the remainder re-indexed. They were received in this form by the Historical Section in April 1920, and bound as received, in a series of Volumes. The 1919 index will be found in the first volume (see ADM 137/1881) and extracts from this have been inserted in each succeeding volume. This volume is the 38th of the series.

Folio 3: Index of contents. Trade - the Blockade. Fishing areas and fishing vessels.

Folios 4-7: Blank.

Folio 8: Contents list.

Folios 9-65: A. Fishing on the East Coast of Great Britain. Admiralty orders for fishing vessels issued in 1914 (folios 15-16) and for 1917 (folios 43A-43E).

Folios 66-274: B. Fishing on the West Coast of Scotland. Chart indicating where British vessels are forbidden by Admiralty orders to fish, dated 29 December 1914 (folio 108). Fishery Board for Scotland pamphlet containing Admiralty Orders for fishing vessles fishing on North West Coast of Scotland dated 10 May 1915 and 26 June 1915 (folios 115-116, 161), with accompanying chart showing designated fishing areas dated 28 October 1915 (folio 117). Representations made via the National Sea Fisheries Protection Association July-August 1915 from the Fleetwood, Hull, Grimsby, Tyne and Aberdeen Fishing vessel owners associations (folios 119-127). Chart showing the fishing areas of the North West Coast of Scotland, dated 21 November 1915 (folio 141). Amendments to Admiralty Orders for British Fishing vessels, dated 16 May 1916, (folio 204). Chart indicating where British vessels are forbidden by Admiralty orders to fish, dated 21 November 1916 (folio 221).

Folios 275-386: C. Fishing in the Moray Firth. Copy petition from the fish merchants at Fraserburgh for an extension of the area for herring fishing from Fraserburgh dated 5 August 1916 (folios 283-284). Chart indicating where British vessels are forbidden by Admiralty orders to fish, dated 18 June 1916 (folio 285). Diagrams in regards to Patrol Order 29 Sheet 2B indicating plan B, fishing areas, dated 3 January 1917, (folios 309, 358). Admiralty orders in regards to fishing in the Moray Firth, dated 31 December 1917, (folios 363-364).

Folios 387-492: D. Miscellaneous correspondence regarding fishing and fishing vessels (mainly dealing with foreign fishery matters). Icelandic fishing grounds and Icelandic trawlers (folios 398-401, 403). Iceland fish traffic (folios 405-406). Chart showing suggested prohibited areas for neutral vessels, dated 22 September 1914, (folio 413). Regulations concerning French fishing vessels proceeding to Iceland and Newfoundland, January 1915, (folios 416-417). Brittish trawlers and the presence of aliens, October 1914, (folios 425-432). Dutch trawlers in Western part of the North Sea, August 1915, (folios 433-448). Control of fishing fleets in Patrol area 1, February 1916 - January 1917 (folios 454-462). Extracts from vessels boarded and examined in the Mersey Channels, December 1916, (folio 463). Proposal for obtaining fish for the fleet (folios 473-477). Admiralty orders for fishing vessels Scapa Flow, dated 24 April 1916, (folio 480). Correspondence relating to the Swedish fishing vessel Minni, December 1918, (folios 485-489). War orders - British Fishing vessels, Admiralty orders, dated 12 July 1919, (folios 492-493).

Folios 493-495: Blank.