96 DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



Cod fishing by hook and line had long been carried 

 on in the North Sea, as it is at present ; but the vessels 

 employed in that fishery were of a larger class than 

 the older trawlers, and they had wells for the purpose 

 of keeping their fish alive, involving an additional 

 expense in their construction, which, although justified 

 by the high prices the live cod obtained in the market, 

 would not be generally met by a corresponding advan- 

 tage in the case of trawled fish. 



There cannot be less than 1000 sea-going trawlers of 

 various sizes now systematically working in the North 

 Sea, besides nearly 300 fishing in and near the English 

 Channel; and more than 100 on the Lancashire and 

 Welsh coasts. 



