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season, reduced this excess to about 450 lasts; whereas the Lowestoft 

 meu, who seem to have lost all spirit towards the end of the season, 

 and were making very small catches at a time when the Yarmouth men 

 were doing well, ended with a deficiency as compared with last year of 

 some 2,340 lasts (representing, at £15 per last, a money value of 

 £35,490), not to mention loi s of gear from stress of weather and Osteud 

 trawlers. Prices, as usual, fluctuated from £5 to £3G per last, accord- 

 ing to quality or supply. 



The following table will show the results of the year's flshery from 

 Yarmouth and Lowestoft. As the spring, summer, and autumn voyages 

 merge into each other, anil any division must be arbitrary, I give a con- 

 tinuous monthly record for the whole year. For the Yarmouth return 

 I am indebted to Mr. H. Teasdel, jr., the corporation accountant, and 

 for Lowestoft to Captain Massingham, harbor-master at that port. 



Iltt urn of herring landed at the Yarmouth and Lowestoft fish-wharves in 1882. 



lls.MOILAM) FISHERIES AND APPARATUS. 



By JOS. JOHNSTON & SONS. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



Eecently, at the London Fisheries Exhibition, we had a conference 

 with your people about the method of using the purse-seine in the 

 waters of the United States, and would be obliged if you would send us 

 your History of* the Mackerel Fishery and the United States Fish Com- 

 mission Bulletins. We are interested in all kinds of fishing, being 

 tenants of salmon fisheries, chiefly on the sea-coast of Scotland, which 

 rent at £9,000 per annum. We are also interested in all sea fisheries, 

 such as herring, cod, ling, halibut, &c. We are now building two steam- 

 ers, each 116 feet long, to fish with beam-trawl and purse-seines, the 

 latter being quite new in this country, but we are to make a trial of it. 



MoNTitosE, Scotland, August 17, 1883. 



