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to be in disposing of tlie enormous nnmbers of haddocks 

 caught by the North Sea trawlers, and that the fisher- 

 men were forbidden to bring in more than a certain 

 quantity of these fish. Such an order is no longer 

 necessary^ for since the idea of smoking the haddocks 

 has been carried out quite an important trade in the 

 dried fish has sprung up and continues both at Grimsby 

 and Hulk The introduction of ice for preserving the 

 fish has caused another revolution in the trade and in 

 the working arrangements of the trawlers ; of this we 

 shall speak presently when we give some account of 

 the Hull fisheries, Grimsby and Hull having much the 

 same customs in these matters ; ^ but we may here 

 mention that in 1872 there were as many as 22,000 tons 

 of ice imported at Grimsby, principally for the use of 

 its fisheries. Besides trawling and line-fishing from 

 Grimsby, there are numerous small craft solely employed 

 in the whelk fishery " — in collecting bait for the cod- 

 smacks. These three fisheries are the only ones with 

 which Grimsby is immediately concerned ; but in the 

 herring season, the drift-boats occasionally land their 

 fish there when they have been working in the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



There is some shrimping carried on at Cleethorpes, 

 a little southward from Grimsby, but it is only done l)y 

 hand, a " shove-net" with a spread of 10 feet at the 

 foot and a pocket in the bunt of the net being used. 

 Cleethorjoes has also some name for oysters, beds for 

 laying them on being prepared along the shore. They 

 are obtained oif the coast near Saltfleet, and are col- 

 lected by the Colchester men, as well as by those in the 

 neighbourhood. The Cleethorpes beds are all private 



1 We are indebted to Mr. E. T, Vivian, of Hull, and Mr. Ilcnry Knott, of 

 Grimsby, for mncli interesting information on these points. 

 ^ See Linc-fisliing, p. 143. 



