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DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



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-trawUng — Kailway returns of fish traffic — Herring fishery from 

 Lowestoft and Yarmouth — Comparative faiUire of the mackerel fishery — 

 Great increase of fishing boats at Lowestoft and Yarmouth — Ilise 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 — 

 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 — 

 Rapid 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 — Selling 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 — A''arious 

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

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

 trawlers — Inquiry by Royal 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 

 fisheries. 



Harwich to Boston — Number of Boats. 



