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carried out on the French coast. As there is not the 

 slightest doubt about the French sardine being nothing 

 but the young pilchard, myriads of which are caught 

 every year in the Bay of Biscay for the purpose of 

 being cured in oil under the name of "sardines," 

 there appeared to be no reason why the same manu- 

 facture should not be attempted in other places where 

 the same fish could be procured : and accordingly some 

 enterprising Cornish merchants set up curing establish- 

 ments at the two places we have mentioned, having 

 taken measures to ensure a thorough knowledge of the 

 French method of treating the fish. The result has 

 been a great success; and I understand that orders 

 for Cornish sardines or pilchards in oil have been 

 given during the last two years to such an extent, that 

 the manufacturers have had quite enough to do to 

 execute them. The curing season is in August and 

 September, and the fish are caught for the purpose by 

 both scan and drift nets. 



There is a general similarity in the methods of fish- 

 ing along the Cornish coast, and it will be hardly 

 necessary to say more than that, besides the important 

 drift and sean fisheries I have spoken of, there is a 

 good deal of general line-fishing; crabs and lobsters 

 have long been caught in considerable numbers, 

 although insufiicient to meet the great increase in the 

 demand for them in the London market and elsewhere ; 

 and there are a few trawlers belonging to Penzance 

 and Falmouth, though such trawling as there is on the 

 Cornish coast is almost entirely done by smacks from 

 Brixham and Plymouth. 



