384 NOTES ON THE HKERING, LONG-LINE, AND PILCHARD 



Date. 



Nov. 

 27 



28 



29 



30 



Dec. 

 2 



Number per 

 boat. 



600 > 



100 > 



3000 > 



6000 > 



3000 > 



10,000 > 

 4000 > 



8000 > 



10,000 



10 



800 > 



1200 

 4000 



10,000 



to 

 12,000 



Several 

 thousand 



Several 

 hundred 



Locality. 



Hum Bay 



Batten Bay 



Cawsand Bay 



Cawsand Bay 



2milesS.W.of 

 Penlee Point 

 Cawsand Bay 

 2milesS.W.of 

 Penlee Point 

 Cawsand Bay 



Wbitsand Bay 



N. of Eddy- 

 stone 

 Whitsand Bay 

 Off Rame 

 Head 



Whitsand Bay 



Cawsand Bay 



Plymouth 

 Sound 



Price per 

 100. 



3/0 



2/0 

 1/6 



1/3 



1/2 

 1/3 



1/2 

 3/0-1/6 



2/0 1 



1/6 

 1/11 



1/6 J 



1/8 

 1/11 



Remarks. 



No quantity of fish arrived yet, probably 

 owiuij to the east winds, which are noticed 

 to keep not only herring but whiting off 

 the coast. 



The low price is due to large consignments 

 from W. Cornwall, which are two days 

 old on arrival, and are sold at 1/0 per 

 100, depreciating the home catch. 



Caught in moored nets. These are not the 

 same fish as those caught by the Saltash 

 fishermen ; the scales of the latter come 

 off much more readily than those of the 

 coast herrings, cauglit for the first time 

 to-day. Since the beginning of the month 

 from 60,000 down have been taken by 

 large and small boats in St. Ives Bay. 

 They have since decreased there, and in- 

 creased at Penzance, where they had from 

 20,000 down. Finally, they have fallen 

 off at Penzance, and have appeared at 

 Plymouth, their last spawning place, but 

 they are still very hard. 



Caught in moored nets. They have not yet 

 appeared in the Sound. 



Caught by six large boats. 



Moored nets. 



Moored nets. Owing to the strong S.E. 

 winds it has been difficult to underrun 

 the moored nets in Cawsand Bay ; other- 

 wise the catches would have been better. 



Wind E.N.E. No herrings in the Sound 

 or in Cawsand Bay. The Cawsand fisher- 

 men made the whole catch, having moved 

 their moored nets to Whitsand Bay. The 

 herring is a "lee fish," moving backwards 

 with the wind. They will remain in 

 Whitsand Bay till the wind shifts and 

 drives them out. A west wind is the best 

 for Plymouth Sound. 



Wind E.N.E. The fish in Whitsand Bay 

 are caught in moored nets, the others by 

 the large drift-boats. 



Moored nets taken from Whitsand Bay. 

 Wind W., very light. 10,000 herrings 

 brought in by pilchard-boats, made 2/0 

 per hundred. 



Moored nets. Wind W., fresh. The drift 

 herrings always make more money than 

 those taken in moored nets, the latter 

 being so many hours dead in the water. 



