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fact that the value of such men is as great even in this age of 

 mechanics as in the times of Drake and Nelson. . . . 



' The total number of the whole-time fishermen is upwards 

 of 125,000, while there are as many half-timers. Taking the 

 whole industry, fishermen, curers, distributing agents, &c., 

 it may be estimated that it gives support to one-twentieth 

 of the population, while the capital sum directly invested 

 must be about 200 million pounds.' x 



SUMMARY 

 'DEEP-SEA' FISHERIES 



Family. 



Namz of 

 Fish. 



Regions in which Found. 



Method of 

 Capture. 



Herring. Herring. The seas of Western Drift-nets. 

 Europe, and of Eastern 

 America, from Cape 

 Race to Cape Hatteras. 

 Most abundant in the 

 North Sea, the Firth of 

 Clyde (Loch Fyne), the 

 Irish Sea, and the Bay 

 of Fundy and Fortune 

 Bay. 



Sprat. Seas of Western Europe. ,, Billingsgate. 



Most abundant in mouth 

 of Thames, the Wash, 

 the Solent, the Firths 

 of Forth and Tay, and 

 Moray Firth. 



Pilchard. From the south of the i St. Ives, Forth- 



British Isles to Madeira. ! leven, Meva- 



Most abundant off coasts! gissey, Newlyn. 



of Cornwall and Devon 

 and Portugal. 



Mackerel. Mackerel. The Eastern and Wes- ,, Plymouth and 



tern Atlantic from 58N. Lowestoft. 



to 30 N. ; but most 

 abundant in the western 

 part of the English 

 Channel, and the south- 

 ern part of the North 

 Sea, and south coast of 

 Ireland. 



1 Geography of British Fishes, by Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., 

 a paper read before the Royal Geographical Society, March 8, 1915. 



Chief Ports 

 connected with 

 the Fisheries. 



Stornoway, Wick, 

 Fraserburgh, 

 Peterhead, 

 Aberdeen, Yar- 

 mouth, Grimsby, 

 Lowestoft, 

 St. John's, N.B. 



