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The remaining portion of tlic English coast is chiefly 

 concerned with the herring fishery and hand and long 

 lining, except in a few places where set-nets are used 

 for catching turbot. There is also a little inshore 

 trawling, but not of mnch consequence. Between 

 Whitby and Hartlepool lies the })ictnresque little 

 village of Staithes,' long famous for its devotion to 

 the line-fisheries, which by some of tljc fishermen is 

 still carried on throughout the year, herring fishing- 

 occupying others in the season. The fish principally 

 obtained by the line are cod, haddock, holibut, and 

 coalfish or " black jacks " ; the last are numerous along 

 the coast and nortliwards, and we have seen laige 

 numbers of them brought on shore here during the 

 time when the herrings were in the neighbourliood. 

 Advantage is taken by the fishermen of the ravenous 

 f)ropensities of the cod and coalfish, wlien following 

 the shoals of herrings, to obtain a good supply of bait 

 from the well-filled stomachs of these fish ; and as soon 

 as the line-boats bring their captives on shore, the 

 fishermen's wives and daughters set to work with their 

 sharp knives, slit open the coalfish and cod with a 



' We arc not quite .sure at whicli of these two ports Ihc Staitlies bout.s are 

 registered . 



