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chievons effect is probably due more to the abundance 

 of small fish in the locality where it is used than to the 

 construction of the frame of the net. 



Many of the First Class fishing vessels on the Harwich 

 register are engaged in bringing lobsters from Norway 

 — a trade with which one firm at Harwich has been 

 connected for nearly fifty years. 



The following is a return of the quantity of fish, 

 principally consisting of cod, carried by the Great 

 Eastern Railway from Harwich during the under- 

 mentioned years : — 



The fisheries carried on from Lowestoft and Yar- 

 mouth are of much the same character, and these towns 

 may be regarded as the centres of the great herring 

 fishery on the eastern coast of England, and holding an 

 important position also as trawling stations. It is for 

 the herring and mackerel fisheries by drift-nets, how- 

 ever, that Yarmouth has long been especially famous. 

 The construction of a harbour at Lowestoft and the 

 opening of a railway to the town have led to a very 

 great development of the fishing trade there within the 

 last few years ; and the increase is especially remarkable 

 in the number of trawlers which now sail from and 

 belong to the port. Li the drift-fishery also more 

 capital has been put into the trade, and there has been 

 an increase not only in the number, but also in the size 

 of the fishing boats employed. In our general account 

 of the drift-fishing' we have noticed the particular 



' See Drift-fishing, p. 121. 



