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Unlike Grimsby and Hull markets, that at Aberdeen 

 belongs to the Town Council, who recognise the need of 

 keeping up to date in everything relating to the trawl- 

 ing industry, and find the market a very profitable in- 

 vestment. The harbour dues on fishing-vessels at 

 Aberdeen are : trawlers, 6s. per arrival ; steam-liners, 

 43., with a discount of 20 per cent. In addition 2d. per 

 cwt. is charged on all fish landed, half of which is 

 claimed by the Town Council. The revenue from 

 fish, exclusive of herrings, was nearly ; 18,000 in 

 1910. 



In varied interests of operations, so far as North Sea 

 fishing is concerned, the lead is taken by the North- 

 Eastern Railway Company, whose area of influence 

 extends from the Humber to the Tweed, and, in 

 addition to the enormous operations represented by the 

 ancient port of Hull, there are the fishing ventures 

 of North Shields, Sunderland, Hartlepool, and Scar- 

 borough. At Hartlepool the Company have just 

 opened a fine new fish-dock. For different modes of 

 fishing there is scarcely any region which approaches, 

 certainly none which surpasses, that which is served 

 by the North-Eastern system. The most modern opera- 

 tions in steam trawling and lining, as exemplified 

 at Hull, are side by side with the old-world way of 

 doing things, which may be seen at Flamborough, 

 Whitby, Staithes, Newbiggin, Cullercoats, Robin 

 Hood's Bay, and Berwick, to mention three or four of 

 the towns and villages where primitive North Sea men 

 still exist. 



Lowestoft is another famous east coast port which 

 owes much to a railway company the Great Eastern. 



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