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under the regulation of the fishermen of that village. 

 Dredges of three sizes are used according to the nature 

 of the ground, and the rings of which the under part 

 of the bag is made up are 1| inch in diameter in all of 

 them. 



The longlines used here are of two kinds — those for 

 haddock and cod. The haddock lines carry from 800 

 to 1000 hooks each, on snoods 14 inches long and 2| 

 feet apart, and the baits used are mussels and lug- 

 worms. The number of men in a boat depends on her 

 size, and whether the fishing is carried on near or far 

 from land ; as the haddocks generally are at no great 

 distance the smaller boats are used for this fishery. 

 There is a considerable trade in smoked haddocks from 

 Eyemouth ; the fish are placed for an hour in pickle 

 and then hung for a night in some hardwood smoke. 

 The cod or " great lines " are worked at considerable 

 distances from land, and although on precisely the 

 same principle as the haddock lines, have fewer and 

 larger hooks. They have about six score hooks to a 

 line with the snoods 5 feet long and an interval of 

 2| fathoms between them. Small haddock and herrings 

 are here used for baiting them, and cod, ling, skate, 

 holibut, and turbot are the fish taken. The number of 

 lines in a boat varies with the number of men, each 

 of whom has one, and they are all fastened into a string 

 when they are shot, as we have previously described 

 when speaking of longlining from Grimsby.^ The 

 longlines are mostly used from April to July. 



The great herring fishery on this coast is carried on 

 from July to September, and about the end of the 

 season the spawning takes place. It is then the practice 

 at Dunbar and some other places to ground and anchor 



' See page 137. 



