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towards the north, in two wide-spread shoals. In October 

 the herrings had proceeded so far northwards, that they 

 could be taken in greatest abundance between 58° and 

 60° N. Lat. ; and in November the herrings were not to be 

 found south of 59° N. Lat.* 



It is impossible in this work to give the particulars 

 of the fishery of each year at the various localities, but it 

 is extremely interesting and very instructive to notice 

 the progress of the fishery at any given locality during a 

 season. For instance, by a tabular view of the fishery 

 at Wick in 1858, we see in the beginning of the 

 fishery the gradual approach of the herrings to the coast, 

 and the gradual increase of the shoal or shoals off Wick, — 

 namely, it will be found by the following table that the 

 boats began to try on 10th July, that no quantity of import- 

 ance was caught until the 11th and 12th of August, when 

 each boat averaged on the first day 11 crans or barrels, 

 and on the other 22 barrels ; that on the succeeding days, 

 until the 28th of the same month, few were caught, and 

 that the boats only averaged 12 crans on that day ; and 

 that thereafter, until the 23d September, no shoals had 

 been discovered, but that on that day only one boat which 

 had gone out fished 17 crans, and the wliole average at 

 the conclusion of the fishing was only 85 crans to each 

 boat, whereas in 1855 the average was 142 barrels to 

 each boat. 



* Uitkomsteu Verkregen uit de Journalen der Harengschepen uitgege- 

 ven doer het Kouinklyk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Institnt, p. 8. 



