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BRITISH INDUSTRIES. 



Abstract, showing the total quantity of cod, ling, 

 saithe, and tusk cured and exported in the years 

 1866-75 : 



The average number of fish required to make up a 

 hundredweight in the dried state may be roughly 

 estimated by the returns for Shetland alone in 1875, 

 when there were 3,458,799 fish landed, and these pro- 

 duced 111,812 cwts. of dried fish. 



The Shetland smacks are not the property of the 

 fishermen, but are fitted out by the curers, the men 

 receiving half the catch, or its equivalent, after all 

 expenses are paid ; they are also provided with bread 

 by the owners. At the close of the deep-sea cod 

 fishery, these smacks are laid up for the winter, and 

 the crews seek some other employment ; but the winter 

 days in that northern region are too short, and the 

 weather commonly too stormy, for much fishing to be 

 done on the coast. Some of the Grimsby cod-smacks, 



