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carriers, now doing part of the work, average 2800 

 packages of fish in each voyage. Besides the fish sent 

 direct to London by water carriage, a large quantity is 

 also landed at Yarmouth and sent away by rail to 

 various markets. Ice, for the use of the trawlers, is 

 mainly imported from Norway, but a good deal is also 

 procured in this country, especially from Norfolk and 

 Lincolnshire. The number of fishing boats in the 

 Yarmouth district, which includes very few besides 

 those belonging to Yarmouth, has increased from 1002 

 in 1872, to 1018 in 1875. Of these, there were 532 

 boats averaging over 34 tons, in the first class, and 

 consisting of drift boats and trawlers. The Yar- 

 mouth fisheries can hardly be considered, under all 

 the circumstances, to be in otherwise than a thriving 

 condition. 



The characteristic fisheries of Cromer and Shering- 

 ham, between Yarmouth and the Wash, are for crabs 

 and lobsters, and, owing to the diminished success 

 attending them, certain restrictions as to the size of 

 these animals allowed to be caught have been imposed 

 by an Act of Parliament recently passed. The fisher- 

 men at Cromer have, for some years past, agreed on 

 certain regulations as to the size of the crabs and 

 lobsters they should keep and sell, but the effect has 

 not been to add to the supply of these crustaceans. 

 By the recent Act, a considerable extent of coast has 

 become subject to regulations having the same end in 

 view, but it is too early to say anything about the 

 result. It is to be hoped, however, that a fair trial 

 will be given to the Act, and that we may be able to 



