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FISHING STATIONS— ENGLAND. 



Annual returns of llie number of fishing boats — Registration imperfect — 

 Present classification of boats useless for any practical purpose — Ports and 

 Port Letters — Carlisle to Runcorn, number of boats — Character of 

 the fisheries — Trawling at Fleetwood and Liverpool — Morecarabe Pay 

 shrimping — Description of boats — Beaumaris to Cardiff — Welsh 

 fisheries unimportant — Trawling at Carnarvon and Tenby — Oyster fish- 

 ing at Milford and Mumbles — "Weirs — Bristol to Padstow — Bridge- 

 water Bay — Bag-nets at Burnham — Flat-bottomed boats — Barnstaple 

 Bay and Bideford — Hayle to Fowey — Cornish fisheries — St. Ives 

 pilchard fishery — Pilchard scans — Mode of working — Regulated by Act 

 of Parliament — Landing the fish, curing, packing — Annual exports — 

 Mackerel drift-fishery — Mount's Bay luggers — Line-fishing — " Tumbling- 

 nets " — Oyster fishing at Falmouth — Plymouth, to Weymouth — 

 Plymoi;th trawlers — Scarcity of fish in Plymouth market since the open- 

 ing of the railway — Line and drift fisheries — Brixham long famous for 

 its fisheries — Supposed to have originated beam-trawling — Want of 

 evidence on the question — Mr. Froude's mention of Brixham trawlers in 

 the time of Elizabeth — Inaccm-ate reports on the recent condition of 

 Brixham trawling — Steady increase of the fishery — Continued supply of 

 fish — Line, drift, and scan fisheries in Torbay — Mackerel fishing at the 

 Chesil Beach — Channel Islands — Mackerel fishing — Guernsey fish- 

 ing boats — Cessation of the herring fishery — Congers, red mullet — Tram- 

 mels, sand-eel seans — Jersey — Crabs and lobsters — Grey mullet caught 

 by hook — Poole to Newhaven — Various fisheries — Keer-drag — 

 Stow-boating in the Solent — Brighton " hog-boat " — Drift and sean fish- 

 eries — Rye to Ramsgate — Inshore and deep-sea trawling — Kettle- 

 nets, shrimjMng — Whiting fishing — Faversham to Colchester — 

 Fisheries from the Thames — Trawlers and cod-smacks — Water carriage 

 and land carriage of fish — Steam- vessels and sailing carriers — Barking 

 formerly an important station — Leigh shrimpers — Description of shrimp- 

 net — Oyster dredging and stow-boating Page 177 



FISHING STATIONS— ENGLAND (continued). 



Harwich to Boston — Decline of Harwich as a fishing station — Mr. Groom's 

 account of the introduction of welled-vessels — Cod-chests at Harwich — 

 Shrimp-trawling — Railway returns of fish traffic — Herring fishery from 

 Lowestoft and Yarmouth — Comparative failure of the mackerel fishery — 

 Great increase of fishing boats at Lowestoft and Yarmouth — Rise and long 

 continuance of the Yarmouth herring fishery — Swinden and Manship's 

 account of it — Yarmouth Haven often difficult to enter — Fish market — 

 Landing fish on the beach — "Swills" — Mode of counting herrings — A 

 " last " of fish — Curing red herrings and bloaters — Smoking, packing — 



