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boats, it gives a good idea of the growth of the local 

 fish traffic during the period. It must be remembered, 

 also, that the rise of Grimsby as a fishing station has 

 not been at the expense of Hull, as I shall presently 

 show, for the increase of trawlers has been going on 

 there and at other stations on the east and south coasts 

 during the same time. 



Keturn of the quantity of fish landed at Grimsby 

 from 1856 to 1875 : 



1856 

 1857 

 1858 

 1859 

 1860 

 1861 

 1862 

 1863 

 1864 

 1865 



Tons. 

 15,692 

 19,416 

 21,621 

 24,140 

 26,324 

 30,857 

 31,193 

 34,876 

 35,134 

 34,881 



Of late years, an annual average of about 4000 tons 

 of herrings has been landed at Grimsby from Yar- 

 mouth and Lowestoft drift-boats, but in 1875 the 

 quantity was much less than usual. Grimsby has 

 large docks devoted to the fishing smacks, and a 

 covered landing wharf 882 feet long and 48 feet wide, 

 which also answers the purpose of a fish market. 

 This large space may be seen every morning covered 

 with fish from one end to the other, and salesmen and 

 buyers busily engaged in selling, buying, and packing 

 the fish. The sales are, as usual in the wholesale 

 market, entirely by auction. Everything has been 



