F[S1II\(; S'I'A'I'IONS— KX(iLANl). 2G1 



productive of" good to all concerned witli it. Deep- 

 sea fisliermen need not now be afraid of tlieir fish be- 

 coming spoiled before it reaches the market ; and tlie 

 supply to the consumer is larger and must be, at all 

 events to some extent, cheaper than would otherwise 

 be the case. 



Takino: into consideration the loss of time while 

 going to and returning from the fishing grounds, 

 the number of days spent in port after the several 

 voyages, and the interruptions from unfavourable 

 weather, the actual time each of these smacks occu- 

 pies in fishing does not exceed about nine months in 

 the course of the year ; and it is in winter when there 

 is no want of wind that the most profitable trawling is 

 everywhere carried on. 



The Second Class boats belonging to the Hull district 

 include numerous small craft, which trawl for shrimj^s 

 in the Humber, others more or less engaged in line- 

 fishing for mackerel, whiting, and other kinds accord- 

 ing to the season, and belonging to Hornsea, Spurn, 

 Withernsea, and other places on the coast northwards, 

 and the small trawlers which work in Bridlington 

 Bay. The last locality has been much trawled over 

 for more than twenty years by large open boats of 

 8 or 10 tons, using a net with a trawl-beam 18 or 

 20 feet long. Plaice are the fish principally caught 

 there, and the fishing is carried on more or less 

 throughout the year. 



From about Flamborough Head to nearly as far as 

 Holy Island the peculiar boats called "cobles"^ are in 

 regular use. They vary a good deal in size, but are all 

 built on one principle and with one object — that of 

 readily beaching stBrn foremost in a surf. The bow is 



' Pronounced " cobbles." 



