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extends from October to December i6th, during which 

 period nearly 218 millions of fish were delivered at the 

 wharves, which, at the wholesale price of 15 a last, shows 

 a total of 250,000. Along the Devonshire coast, in 1880, 

 this fishery commenced about November ijth, and a fort- 

 night earlier than in 1879 (as was likewise the mackerel 

 fishery). 



In Devonshire and Cornwall there are two annual 

 migrations of herring ; the first, or large herring, with un- 

 developed roe, matties, approach the coast in May or June, 

 a few being secured in the mackerel nets, while some con- 

 inue to be so taken until the mackerel fishery ceases about 

 uly. About the same time, May or June, quantities pass 

 St. George's Channel to the Irish Sea, and are supposed 

 fishermen to remain in deep water. In June or July 



ey proceed in a northerly direction, very few remaining off 



ornwall, and they do not return there until October or 

 November, or even as late as December ; their migration 

 towards the coast occurring especially if the weather is 

 fine. Should a storm arise, they at once retire to the deep, 

 and do not reappear off the coast until fine weather has 

 recommenced. By February or March they become 

 " shotten," poor and thin. Besides these large herrings, 

 there is a migration of smaller ones early in November, 

 which, as Mr. Dunn has observed in Cornwall, migrate to 

 the west at the extreme northern extremity of the county. 

 Various schools pass by Port Isaac, New Quay, St. Ives, 

 around Land's End, and eastwards into Mount's Bay or by 

 Falmouth and Mevagissey, finally stopping at Bigsbury 

 Bay, the bottom of which is rocky, uneven, and covered 

 with flexible corals (Gongona), and here they congregate 

 until the January spawning season. 



Means of capture. For the purpose of indicating where 



