26 THE UNAPPRECIATED FISHER FOLK. 
THE FISHERS SOR SA RVOU TE: 
Herring fishing on the English coasts—Herring catch at Yarmouth 
—Size of vessels and modes of work—Mode of paying the crew 
—Yarmouth bloaters and kippers—Scottish boats at Yarmouth— 
Curing processes. 
WE do not propose to follow the herring-fishers to every 
place where there is a rendezvous for their boats—in other 
words, a seat of the fishery. The labour attendant on the 
Scottish system of drift-net fishing has been detailed in the 
preceding pages; but in Scotland, especially in Lochfyne, 
another mode of capturing the herring has been long in use. 
We allude to “seining,” or, as it is called locally, trawling. 
It is not so laborious as the drift-net mode of fishing, and 
seems a suitable mode of taking the herring in such waters 
as Lochfyne. In some years seining has proved very 
remunerative to the men, in consequence of the fish being 
plentiful ; but there, as elsewhere, the fishing is irregular, and 
no one can say how he has fared till the end of the season, 
a few lucky hauls on one or two days of the fishing may 
make all the difference between good and bad fortune. 
No other modes of fishing for herrings have been adopted 
in Scotland other than seining and drift-net fishing ; and, as 
has been stated, the herring-fishery in Scotland is chiefly a 
shore-fishery, which of course adds greatly to the toil of the 
fisher folk. The practice of “yair-fishing” is now, we 
think, very uncommon, but we have seen yairs, or en- 
closures, in Lochbroom, into which the herrings enter and 
are left high and dry by the tide. There are a few decked 
