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Aberdeen, are prepared a small proportion of the ' Finnan 

 baddies' which find place in every fishmonger's shop. Like 

 Yarmouth bloaters and champagne, the name is considered 

 everything by many people. The true Finnan haddie is smoked 

 over a peat fire in the cottages of the fishermen at Findon, but 

 most of the haddocks sold under this name are cured "in other 

 places by means of wood smoke. 



Between Stonehaven and Aberdeen is a bold rocky coast 

 with numerous inlets, bays, and deep gullies, and a good deal 

 of fishing from the rocks for cod is carried on. Very long 

 bamboo rods are used. The railway touches the coast of 

 Portlethen, Cove, and Muchalls. Much sea fishing is also 

 done from the piers and breakwaters along this part of the 

 coast, and there is good mackerel fishing at times. 



The fishing stations on the Moray Firth, and further north, 

 are of considerable importance, and in particular may be 

 mentioned Fraserburg, Banff, Buckie, Findhorn, Cromarty, 

 Helmsdale, and Lybster. Some of the most beautiful fishing 

 boats I have ever seen came from this part of the coast. I 

 saw one, a smart lugger, coming into Lowestoft Harbour (for 

 these Scotch fishermen are enterprising, and travel far afield) ; 

 it was sailing two feet for every one covered by an English boat 

 ahead of it. The Scotch craft gained so rapidly on the English- 

 man that the two entered the harbour together and there was 

 a trifling collision. 



The fisheries of the Firth of Forth are considerable. 

 Herring fishing, by means of drift nets, is carried on ; while 

 large quantities of cod and haddocks are caught on long lines ; 

 and there is a good deal of beam trawling near Buckhaven and 

 other places on the north side of the Firth. Places of some 

 little importance, in which will be found fishermen, fishing 

 boats, and baits, are Eyemouth, North Berwick, Dunbar and 

 Newhaven. 



