156 BRITISH IND USTRIES. 



sought. A few years afterwards the scarcity of bait 

 was the great cause of complaint, and near the Tyne a 

 profitable salmon fishery on the coast led to the her- 

 ring fishery being neglected. 



In the neighbourhood of Holy Island and north- 

 wards, a class of boats distinct from the cobles is em- 

 ployed. They are known as " keel boats," and are 

 of very much the same build as the general run of 

 Scotch fishing craft. At Berwick - on - Tweed the 

 fisheries are essentially the same as at the fishing 

 stations in the Firth of Forth, which I shall speak of 

 presently. 



Crabs and lobsters are fished for on all the rocky 

 parts of this coast, and, according to the evidence given 

 during a recent inquiry there, the supply is not so 

 good as formerly. 



