54 THE UNAPPRECIATED FISHER FOLK. 
seasons for fish taking are so varied that industrious fisher- 
men may at all times find abundant work, when wind and 
water prove suitable. Thousands of resident fishermen are 
men of all work taking the different fishes in their. seasons, 
going to sea day by day with an anxious mind, and well 
pleased many of them are, if they can obtain a moderate 
catch of fish. It would surprise those persons unacquainted 
with the round of fishing labour, to know the extent of the 
shrimp fishery, and the money value of the shrimps which 
are caught on our coasts, then there are the annually recur- 
ring industries of Oyster dredging, and Lobster and Crab 
catching, which occupy the time of many persons who 
prefer that sort of work to the more laborious occupation 
of herring fishing, or trawling in the prolific North Sea. | 
