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structed on the same principle as those we have de- 

 scribed as being in use at Grimsby/ but in order that 

 they may offer less resistance to the stream their 

 ends are rounded off, giving them a somewhat boat- 

 shaped appearance. The chests 

 at G-rirasby being kept in the 

 quiet water of the fish dock, 

 the oblong shape is adopted 

 as being more convenient for 

 stowing a number of them to- 



,1 1 • J • J • Harwich Cod-chest. 



gether, besides providmg more 



space inside and entailing less expense in their con- 

 struction. 



A few deep-sea trawlers occasionally work from 

 Harwich ; and there are a good many small trawlers 

 engaged in the fishery for prawns or " red shrimps" 

 along the coast between Harwich and Orford. Trawl- 

 ing is also carried on in the river, and a net called " a 

 Trim-tram " is likewise in use there. This net is essen- 

 tially the same as the shrimp-net used by the Leigh 

 fishermen for catching the brown shrimp ; but it has a 

 flat triangular frame fixed in front of the lower beam 

 and resting on the ground, so that the mouth of the net 

 is not likely to fall back and cannot fall forward with 

 this projecting shoe. The point of this angular frame is 

 slightly turned up to prevent it from running into the 

 ground, and the tow-rope is made fast to it instead of 

 to the beam, as in the shrimp-net. The contrivance 

 strikes one as particularly clumsy, and the projecting 

 frame must certainly interfere with the entry of the fish 

 into the net, although complaints have been made of 

 the destruction of small fish by its use. The mis- 



' See Line-fishing, p. 149. 



