Notes on tlie Fishing Industry of Plymouth. 



By 



IV alter Heape, 9I.A., 



Kesident Superintendeut of the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine 

 Biological Association. 



In tlie following Notes on the Fishing Industry of 

 Plymouth the information obtained is divided into three 

 sections, which are again subdivided as follows : 



I. — Methods of fishing, localities fished, and fish caught. 

 There are eleven different methods of fishing carried on in 

 Plymouth : 



1. Beam trawling. 2. Drift-net fishing. 3. Moored-net 

 fishing. 4. Seine fishing. 5. Bultering, or long-line fishing. 



6. Hand-line fishing. 7. Eel spearing. 8. Mullet trap- 

 ping. 9. Crab and lobster fishing. 10. Shrimp and prawn 

 fishing. 11. Oystei', mussel, and cockle fishing. 



II. — Industries connected with the fishing trade carried 

 on in Plymouth : 



1. Boat building. 2. Sail making. 3. Rope making. 



4. Fish-line making. 5. Net breeding. 6. Fish curing. 



7. Fish-skin curing. 8. Fish-oil manufacture. 9. Ice 

 manufacture. 



III. — Methods of ownership, wage, apprenticeship, 

 insurance, and sale of fish : 



[Note. — Mr. Heape's notes are intended to furnish information which will be 

 useful as a preliminary to the investigations to be carried out in the Plymouth 

 Laboratory when it is completed. They are necessarily not the result of 

 original observation, but are compiled from various sources. They have not 

 been published in any shape before the present date, August 8th, 1887. — 

 E. R. L.] 



