il 
The Pilchards cured at, and shipped from, the undermentioned 
ports during 1870,* were 
NGWOMA dé cecoboodbO0C 6123 A 
Aer ATa Trot ea eg 3, 7594 4,372 hogsheads on the north coast, 
Mount’s-Bay .......... 1,2892 
East of the Lizard...... 306 pes» HORI cp 
The Sean Fish were about 1,300 Le 6,0574 =|, being the entire pro- 
op LDiehinn “3p mers Pape ias 15TR 4 duce of Cornwall ; 
the prices ranged from 64s. to 92s. 6d. per hogshead. 
Some 400 hogsheads of herrings,—taken and cured in the 
same manner as pilchards, realized 52s. per hogshead.t 
The Mackerel fishery is now in active progress; accounts to 
the present time, therefore, serve for comparison with corre- 
sponding periods in other years, but cannot comprehend returns of 
the entire fishing season. During the twelvemonth which ended 
on the 30th of April{ 3,301 tons of the fish—approximately 
valued at Twenty Pounds per ton§—were taken by the West 
Cornwall Railway from Penzance and St. Ives. || 
The home consumption of pilchards, mackerel, and other fish 
I have been unable to ascertain. 
The numbers of boats engaged and of persons employed, to- 
gether with the estimated value of both nets and boats used in 
the fisheries on our coasts, are 
Sean (Pilchard) Fishery. 
Seans. Boats. Persons. Value of nets & boats. 
WON COME GooocoGdKC BTS creek ADIN ERE G92) Ve aoe £74,900 
SOM by -GogoodHnoO Gaeiegs cUOSRi ee (OLS cciare 21,960 
Totals .... 379 619 1510 £96,860 
* The Fishery of 1870 yielded 
Summer fish (caught before the 15th Sept: .... 2813 hogsheads. 
Autumn ,, ( ;; a Ist Nov.) .... 3,3462 a 
Winter ,, ( after He ) eee. 2,4292 aa 
Summer fish realized about.........- ee.- 64s. Od. per hogshead. 
Autumn ,, WEEE We lsat erovetekoyechotateysieye 78s. Od. 33 
Winter ,, fromepreeec 82s. to 92s. 6d. 
BouitHo, Pilchard Circular, 9th Feb: 1871. Fox, Pilchard Circular, 25th 
Feb: 1871. 
}¢ Fox, Pilchard Circular, 25th Feb., 1871. 
+ 983 tons of mackerel—for the most part, taken within comparatively 
short distances of Scilly, were taken from Penzance and Saint Ives by the 
West Cornwall Railway between the 1st and the 21st of May 1871. 
§ This estimate has been obligingly procured for me by Mr. William 
Roberts of Chyandour. 
|| For this—as well as for the immediately preceding—statement, I am 
indebted to Mr. J. D. Sheriff, C.H., Engineer of the Cornwall and West 
Cornwall Railway. 
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