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nets replacing when worn out or lost, which is frequent, 

 also the food for the three remaining hands, which averages 

 about los. a week, and to pay them their wages. The 

 third hand, as we term him, who comes next to the 

 mate, receives i a week ; the deck chap i6s., and the 

 cook los. That is about the average wage from Hull, 

 varying is. more or less according to the emergencies to 

 which the owner is put when he equips his vessel for sea. 

 The working expenses of a trawler are about 400 per 

 annum, independent of wages. The fishermen, I may say, 

 make a very fair living out of their ventures at Hull and 

 round the coast. Messrs. Hewitt sail their vessels on a some- 

 what different system, but still on a kind of partnership 

 capital and labour combined, which I hold is the best 

 method of working that can be devised. The more work 

 the men do, and the more successful they are, the more 

 money they get. Messrs. Hewitt's system is slightly 

 different, but it comes to much the same. I prefer the 

 Hull system myself and so do our fishermen. As an 

 owner I do not, because I do not get quite so much as 

 Messrs. Hewitt do. 



On the single boating system a smack can remain away 

 three or four weeks, iceing and catching his voyage. A 

 night haul is made by shooting the net about 8 P.M., 

 trawling till three or four, about eight hours. A day haul is 

 about five hours ; but the length is necessarily regulated by 

 the nature of the bottom where they are fishing ; under 

 the Boxing system the fish are sent to market every day 

 by steam carriers, and the vessels fish in fleets together, 

 and their movements are regulated under the control of an 

 experienced fisherman who is the appointed Admiral ; these 

 movements and also the fishing are directed by means of 

 flag signals by day and by flares and rockets at night. Each 



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