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and curing stations, may be seen by the following 

 figures taken from the official returns published by the 

 Fishery Board of Scotland. They show the number 

 of boats fishing from those stations during the season, 

 including those belonging there, and boats from other 

 parts of the coast ; the number of fishermen employed 

 in them, and of the various persons engaged in curing 

 the fish landed there, with the total number of barrels 

 of herrings cured in each of the five years 1871-75. 



Return of Boats, Fishermen and Curers, with the 

 number of Barrels of Herrings cured, at Peterhead and 

 Frazerburgh, in the years 1871-75 : 



PETERHEAD. 



FRAZERBURGH. 



The method of curing the fish at Peterhead and 

 Frazerburgh, as well as at the fishing stations all 

 round the coast of Scotland, is that known as the 

 " British White Herring Cure," and consists simply in 



