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the North Sea trade, in addition to fishing boats, will 

 run for this harbour, should it be built, and, as during their 

 sojourn many requirements must be satisfied, a variety of 

 trades will spring up. 



The absence from outlying dangers, which would dis- 

 tinguish a harbour at Filey from many others, would cause 

 it to be preferred to all others on this coast 



The Brigg would probably be incorporated as a feature 

 of the work. 



During the herring season a harbour at Filey would 

 certainly be frequented by a considerable fleet of Scotch 

 boats, which annually go as far south as Yarmouth for this 

 fishing. 



That a harbour will eventually be made here may be 

 considered certain, and inasmuch as a very large number 

 of boats and vessels will frequent it, it is to be hoped a 

 sufficiently comprehensive design will be planned, so that 

 we may not fall into the same errors as at Alderney and 

 Holyhead, and, by constructing works on too limited a scale, 

 find that to alter the plan will admit re-entrant angles 

 on the exterior of the piers and breakwaters, so well known 

 to be a fatal error. 



In his prize essay on Harbour Accommodation for 'Fish- 

 ing Boats, East and North Coasts of Scotland,' 1882, Edin., 

 Mr. Archibald Young, Advocate, Inspector of Salmon 

 Fisheries for Scotland, page 74, draws particular attention 

 to North Sunderland, 40 miles north of the Tyne, and 

 23 south of Berwick-upon-Tweed, near which there is, 

 he states, a very important herring fishery carried on 

 in the neighbourhood of the Fame Islands by Scotch 

 boats which land their fish at Eyemouth and Berwick. 



"In 1877" (he states) "there were 200 boats, from 

 Eyemouth and other stations on the Berwickshire coasts, 



