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falling off more nearer home, some of the smacks from Hull 

 and Grimsby and also other ports have resorted to their 

 fleets, catching and sending to London ; and then steam 

 carriers are tried at Grimsby, then at Hull, and in 3 years 

 a fleet of 13 steam carriers 9 from Hull and 4 from 

 Grimsby are found in attendance on the three fleets sailing 

 under this system from the H umber. And this brings us 

 to the present ; indeed 



" Old times have changed, 

 Old manners gone." 



We live in an age of progression. 



With this development, has the knowledge of the 

 fishermen themselves also advanced ? Yes by extending 

 their searches after fresh fields of enterprise comes the 

 necessity of a better knowledge of navigation, and although 

 the majority trust to "Blind Navigation," the lead and 

 soil, to carry them about, and by this means do find their way 

 about, yet there are a great number who are fairly well versed 

 in navigation. I have been told of a case that happened about 

 thirty years since, where a skipper could not find the silver 

 pits, but had to return to Spurn to get bearings ; what would 

 the fisherman of to-day think of this ? Is inshore trawling 

 by steamers, and shrimp trawling in rivers and bays in- 

 jurious ? Yes. Without doubt great injury is done by 

 steam trawling inshore as practised by the steam tugs in the 

 north. It has been very recently adopted, and a very great 

 deal of fish has been caught close inshore, in places that 

 could not be worked with advantage to a sailing trawler, 

 on account of the rough ground affording only a limited 

 area of clear bottom to fish. These spots have been the 

 haunt of the fish, and they have, undisturbed, bred and 

 increased there ; the result of it has been a falling off of late. 

 I believe much harm has been done by destroying young 



