OF THE GRIMSBY 'I'RAWL FISHERY. BEL 
fleet of herring cobles at Sunderland, Shields, and Hartlepool, now 
there will not be more than twenty altogether, the herring fishing 
being almost entirely done by Penzance, Isle of Man, Scotch, 
Lowestoft, and Yarmouth vessels, who make the herring fishing a 
speciality, and follow the herring round the British Isles. 
“There are now but very few fishermen in the old sense of the 
word, that is, where the whole family lived by fishing alone; but 
there are still a few cobles fishing with lines in winter, and catching 
crabs and lobsters in summer. 
“Of late years mackerel seem to have entirely deserted this 
coast ; at one time they were taken in large quantities by sweeping 
on the shore, but now they are seldom seen and only a few taken 
in herring-nets. 
“‘ Stake-nets were at one time allowed for salmon fishing, but now 
they have to be caught by drift-nets only.” 
