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FISHING STATIONS. 



ENGLAND. 



Annual returns of the number of fishing boats — Kegistration imjierfect — 

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

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

 the tishcries — Trawling at Fleetwood and Liverpool — Morecambe Bay 

 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-fisliing — " Tumbling- 

 nets" — Oyster fishing at Falmouth — Plymouth to Weymoutli — 

 Plymouth 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. Fronde's mention of Brixham trawlers in 

 the time of Elizabeth — Inaccurate reports on the recent condition of 

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

 fish — Line, drift, and sean 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 — Ti'am- 

 mels, sand-eel scans — 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 — B-ye to K.amsgate — Inshore and deep-sea trawling — Kettle- 

 nets, shrimping — 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. 



Having described the methods of sea fishing which are 

 more or less in use around the British Islands, we pro- 

 pose now to give a general sketch of the character of 

 the fisheries in the different districts, and to notice the 

 principal stations which provide the means by which 



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