244 DEEr-SEA FISHING. 



The Yarmontli fish are sent to Italy, the Greek 

 Iskinds, and the Levant. 



For the home market the herrings are packed in 

 boxes ; and both boxes and barrels are usually made 

 on the premises. 



The mackerel fishery is carried on from the middle of 

 May to the middle of July, but has not been so success- 

 ful in recent years as formerly. The same boats and 

 men are employed in it as in the herring fishery, and 

 the mode of working is much the same in both. Twine 

 nets have been used hitherto, but cotton will probably 

 be substituted as new ones are required. 



Trawling has been carried on from Yarmouth for 

 nearly thirty years, but its importance as a trawling 

 station dates from the time, about ten years later, when 

 the vessels belonging to the late Mr. Samuel Hewett 

 first sailed from the port. The convenience of the 

 locality for landing tlie fish and refitting the smacks 

 soon became evident, and for several years there was a 

 busy time at his establishment at Gorleston, nearly 

 opposite the present wholesale fish-market by the side 

 of the haven at Yarmouth. The smacks rapidly in- 

 creased, and at the present moment there are several 

 hundred vessels engaged in this fishery, either belong- 

 ing to the port or using it as a station. Since the 

 death of Mr. Samuel Hewett (who rose from an appren- 

 tice) his large fleet of smacks has, we believe, been 

 dispersed ; and the firm of Hewett and Co. which suc- 

 ceeded him is now understood to confine its operations 

 to carrying the fish to market, and the wholesale trade 

 generally. Some of the family, however, still keep up 

 the name as smack-owners. To Mr. Hewett is due the 

 credit of introducing ice for preserving the fisli on board 

 ship ; and nothing has tended so much to the develop- 



