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The sean fishery for mackerel at Brighton has long 

 been worked at the regular season, and sometimes with 

 considerable profit ; but it has always been an uncer- 

 tain one, as it of course depends on whether or not the 

 fish come close inshore. 



The successful working of the kettle nets in the 

 neighbourhood of Hastings is also subject to the 

 same conditions. In some years enormous catches of 

 mackerel have been made by them, whilst in others the 

 fish have not come within their reach. 



Eye Bay has long been known as excellent trawling 

 ground during a certain time of the year. It has been 

 worked by small trawlers as long as can be remem- 

 bered, and is still productive at the regular season, 

 when, as the fishermen say, the fish come in. Great 

 objections were at one time raised to this inshore 

 trawling ; but, since the results of the fishery were in- 

 quired into, and it appeared that it had been carried on 

 so long, and it was still well worth while for a consider- 

 able number of fishing boats to work there, less has been 

 heard of the supposed injury to the general fisheries by 

 the capture of some quantity of small fish, which always 

 more or less takes place in shallow water. 



At other seasons the Hastings and other boats trawl 

 successfully on the long-famous Diamond Grounds, off 

 this part of the coast ; and the Yarne and the Eidge in 

 mid-Channel are much resorted to by the Dover and 

 Folkestone boats. 



Eamsgate is the next important fishing station on 

 the coast, and it is remarkable for the steady develop- 

 ment of its trawl fishery. Early in the present cen- 



