Xii CONTENTS. 



Yarmouth as a trawling station — Mr. Hewett's introduction of ice — 

 Cromer crab and lobster fisheries — Local regulations for preserving them 

 — Fisheries in the Wash — Leach's herring — Grimsby to Whitby — 

 Eapid increase in the importance of Grimsby as a trawling station — Im- 

 provement in the size and style of fishing smacks — Grimsby Docks — 

 Quantity of fish annually landed there — Fish market — SeUing the fish- 

 Packages formerly and now in use — Importation of ice — State of the 

 trawling interests at Hull — Increased number of smacks — Collecting fish 

 by the carriers — Present system of fishing — Fish put into ice as soon as 

 caught — Bridlington and Flamborough — Description of cobles — Various 

 fisheries on this coast — Middlesboro' to Berwick- on- Tweed — Line- 

 fishing — Cod, haddock, and coalfish — Bratt-nets — Outcry against the 

 trawlers — Inquiry by Koyal Commission in 1863 — Herring fishing on 

 the Northumberland coast — Cullercoats fishermen engaged in salmon 

 fishing, but sea fish not diminished — " Keel-boats " — Fisheries at Holy 

 Island and Berwick — Summary and relative importance of the English 

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FISHING STATIONS— SCOTLAND. 



Methods of fishing in use — Partial change from open to decked fishing boats 



— Advantages of the latter — Fishery Board returns of boats and men in 

 the herring and white fisheries — Board of Trade returns imperfect — Leith 

 to Kirkcaldy — Fisheries in the Firth of Forth — Newhaven cod and had- 

 dock lines — Dandy-line fishing at Dunbar — Important herring fishery at 

 Eyemouth, North Berwick, Anstruther, &c. — Winter fishery — Seaning 

 for sprats — Beam-trawling — Mackerel fishing — Lobsters and crabs — 

 Dundee to Peterhead — Herring fishing and longlining — " Finnan 

 baddies " — Steam-tugs at Aberdeen for towing the fishing boats — Advan- 

 tages of the system — Banff to Wick — Extensive drift and line fisheries 



— Sprat fishing in Beauly Firth — Scottish fishing boats, description of — 

 Increased size and peculiar rig — " Scaith " on the Baufi" coast — Importance 

 of Wick as a station — Measuring the herrings — Classification of the fish 



— Scottish Fishery Board — Curing, packing, branding, exportation — Im- 

 mense number of herrings caught — Winter fishery — Exposed situation of 

 Wick — Fishery harbours — Importance of — Ditliculties in constructing 

 them — Drift - nets — Sheep - skin buoys — Kirkwall to Lerwick — 

 Orkney fisheries uncertain — Frequent bad weather — Line-fisheries — 

 Dried fish for the Spanish market — Abundance of crabs and lobsters — 

 Orkney fishing boats — Shetland fisheries — Importance of the line-fishery 



— Herring fishing uncertain — Longlines and handlines — Distant fishing 

 grounds — Cod-smacks — Line-fish salted and dried — Grimsby smacks at 

 Faroe — Discovery of Rockall — Difficulty in fishing there — Cod fishery 

 at Davis' Straits — Shetland boats, Norway yawls — Taaf-net — Whales 

 at Shetland — Industry and enterprise of the Shctlandors — licturns of 

 Shetland cured fish — Markets 275 



