8 MUSSEL CULTURE 



increasing, the industry has branched out into 

 systems of procuring fish in which bait is un- 

 necessary. The enormous increase of beam- 

 trawling, for instance, has produced a stimulus 

 amongst a different class of the fishing community, 

 and has even opened up markets for certain fishes 

 which are procured in but small numbers by 

 means of baited lines. Still, the fact is significant, 

 that frequently, in recent years, vessels commonly 

 used for trawling have been fitted for use in 

 line-fishing, and that large steam ' liners ' ply all 

 over the fishing areas of the North Sea. These 

 vessels, in sailing as they do from fishing ports 

 such as Grimsby, Yarmouth, Lowestoft, or Hull, 

 where trawling has become the staple method of 

 fishing, can procure their bait of various kinds 

 from the trawlers, and do commonly work in 

 conjunction with them. 



In Scotland the case is different. The herring 

 and the long-line fisheries are the staple sec- 

 tions of the industry. Trawling is practically in 

 its infancy, and is retarded in its growth by 

 regulations having for their express object the 

 protection of the time-honoured method of line- 

 fishing. 



Yet in spite of these regulations w^e find from 



