tsit io & Herring- wring < 

 BY A VISITOR. 



[From The Eastern Daily Press, August 25th, 1881.] 

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S a visitor to Yarmouth, I was de- 

 sirous of seeing something of the 

 process by which the fish delivered 

 out of the smacks are converted 

 into " bloaters," and so I went down 

 to the Fish Wharf, at the south end 

 of the quay, hoping to be able to have my curiosity 

 gratified. The Fish Wharf is a model wholesale 

 market. From the boats moored alongside the quay 

 the herring are delivered out of the hold and counted 

 into big baskets, called " swills." These swills are 

 contracted round the middle, so as to have the form 

 of a figure " 8," and these are placed upon the stand 

 of one or other of the salesmen, who offers them by 

 auction. Most of the buyers are fish-curers, who 

 have extensive premises in and around the town, 

 where they conduct a business which has attained for 

 Yarmouth a celebrity such as no other fishing port 



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