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The number of British deep-sea trawlers may be taken 

 at 3000 (not including steam-cutters), Yarmouth leading 

 with 700, Hull and Grimsby next, making together about 

 half the number, the rest being scattered around our coasts. 

 Such smacks as sail from Yarmouth, Hull, and Grimsby, I 

 class as the deep-sea trawler. Taking the average catch 

 of each of these at loo tons brings the total weight to 

 300,000 tons ; irrespective of the inshore trawlers' catches, as 

 some catch principally the coarse kinds in great quantity (as 

 in the case of Hull and Grimsby, and also Messrs. Hewitts), 

 and others less of coarse and more prime, we may take an 

 estimate at 10 to 12 per ton as the price it fetches, this will 

 give us a total money value of fish, caught by the deep sea 

 trawler, of 3,000,000 atio, or 3,600,000 at 12. 



If we take capital employed in producing this at a total 

 of 15,000,000, invested in floating and shore property, it is 

 not over estimating it. We have ice ships, ice houses, steam 

 carriers, curing houses, storing houses, and many other 

 things too numerous to mention. The number of hands to 

 man these vessels at 5 or 6 hands per ship (though some 

 carry more) makes from 15 to 18,000 ; the latter is more like 

 the number. To this we add 2000 who are out of berth by 

 changing ships, we have then 20,000 hardy and experienced 

 hands employed in deep sea trawling, and who have no 

 other calling or occupation. Some of these have families, 

 and calculating two only in each ship to be married, with 

 each a wife and four children, we have 30,000 more who 

 are altogether dependent on the trawl for siipport. But as 

 the trade cannot be carried on without assistance of shore- 

 labour, it gives employment to more than as many more, 

 such as packers, curers, labourers, watchmen, coopers, net- 

 makers, riggers, &c., and a vast number of other trades too 

 numerous to mention. 



