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Show FORTUNES FROM FISH REAPED BY SKIPPERS j Owners of Craft, It Is Said, Also Are Making, Immense Amount of Money. ! Ht'LL. England. May 17. (Ry the Associ-! Associ-! ated Press.) Fortunes from fisb are being piled up by skippers opprating out of Hull, i .All tltrouh the !ir tlirir profits were so j tremendous that they iwv ronstltute a kind 1 of local plulocrucy. They liave town houses and country houses and garages filled with motor curs. There are now about ninety skippers working: I heir vessels out of this port. The majority are rough sailors, with u rule-of-thumb knowledge knowl-edge of r.u vigii ti-n find curious ideas nbout the best tv:;y lo spnd tlieir huge earnings. For several ' years many of them hnve been nettine from S40.'im to $r0.000 annually. One is said to have avt-ragpfl close on to S6U.000. A record is held by the skipper ot a irawler wliich last fall made the Iceland voyaee twice within six weeks, returning from the first trip with a little lss than $KtO,000 worth of fish, and from the second with a little more than that amount. The ekipper'a net i profit from the two trips was something like 1 920,000. The second voyage lusted ouly seventeen seven-teen days. Owners of the fishing craft, who take none of the risks the skippers f;irp. make even more money. A boat which hardly would have ber-n i though t worth sending to sea before the war I can be counted on now to bring in net profits ! at the rate of more than $100,000 a year. : Wild speculations nre going on in. trawlers, the boats changing hands nt ridiculous prices. ! It is a gamble against time, for when the ! trawlers now engaged in mine-sweeping are ' released from tha t work thc fishing fleet here will be tripled and fitih profits will drop accordingly. |