44 THE SCOTCH EAST COAST HERRING FISHING. 



Last, but not least, comes the great necessity for 

 improving the social condition of our fishermen, and 

 especially of providing suitable and proper accommodation 

 for them at the herring centres. I sincerely hope that 

 circumstances may arise at an early date that will demand 

 an inquiry, the result of which will tend to the much 

 needed rectification of a backward mode of living. A very 

 slight monetary expenditure and a few forcible regulations 

 are all that is requisite to right this matter. The success of 

 the trade is due in a great measure to the fishermen anp 

 their steady enterprise, but they have nearly gone as far 

 as they can ; at least, it is not their business to provide 

 temporary residences at every place they may go to fish. 

 It must therefore lie with the curers (employers), or through 

 Government agency to provide the needful. Our fishing is 

 progressive, so let us hope that our fishermen will also be 

 so. Progress the watchword, and Prosperity the result. 



LONDON: PRINTBD BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS^ LIMITED, 



STAMFORD STREET AND CHARlNli CROSS. 



