PREFATORY NOTE. 



Some account is here given of the Sea Fisheries which are carried on in the colder 

 waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the methods of working and the productive 

 character of those around the British Islands being more particularly described. The 

 various conditions under which the Fisheries are worked in the British seas are to be 

 met with also in the waters of British North America, and there is no apparent reason 

 why the same methods should not be used in both. In the belief, therefore, that the 

 people of the Dominion have a special i' terest in the subject, the following details of 

 the working of the beam-trawl, and other methods in use on the British coasts, are now 

 offered to their notice. 



London, JaiMory 21, 1879. 



