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DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



coast being here known as a hand-trunk ; that was also 

 in use here formerly, but is now generally given up. 

 From twenty to twenty-five creels are used by each boat, 

 and flounders are employed as bait. 



Crabs are taken in set-nets, as also are turbot and 

 skate. 



Dundee to Peteehead — Number of Boats. 



The fisheries along this part of the coast do not 

 require any particular notice, as, although they are 

 of considerable importance, they consist only of those 

 which are carried on in all the other districts, namely, 

 herring fishing and longlining. Haddocks are here 

 perhaps more sought after than the larger white-fish, 

 and the manufacture of " Finnan baddies," begun at 

 the village of Findon, between Stonehaven and Aber- 

 deen, is now carried on at several other places in the 

 neighbourhood. The true Finnan baddies are prepared 

 in the cottages of the fishermen and are smoked over 

 peat fires instead of by the ordinary wood smoke ; they 

 thus acquire a peculiar flavour and fetch a higher price 

 than the others, which are properly known as smoked 

 haddocks. It is to be feared, however, that a very large 

 number of the latter are sold in the shops under the more 

 attractive title. 



The herring fishery from Aberdeen has been very 

 much developed in recent times, and as will be ob- 



