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States of America, was good enough to revise that portion of the 

 last chapter dealing with fishery administration in the United 

 States. Owing to his courtesy I am able to give more recent statistics 

 of the United States operations than would otherwise have been 

 available. I am also indebted to Dr. Smith for the photographs 

 illustrating the United States fisheries. 



For the illustrations of the great Scottish Herring Fishery I am 

 indebted to Mr. Norrie of Fraserburgh. Practically all the remainder 

 are from photographs by Mr. Andrew Scott of the Marine 

 Laboratory, Piel, Barrow-in-Furness, for whose wiUing assistance 

 I am much obliged. The drawings of the modern otter-trawl are 

 from sketches and material furnished by Mr. Manton, Principal of 

 the Technical School for Fishermen at Hull. For permission to 

 reproduce a print of exceptional historical interest I have to thank 

 Mr. Wylie, Provost of Stromness. This print which shows the 

 assembling of the Scottish herring fleet off Brassa in Shetland, 

 probably refers to the first assembly in 1750, in order to participate 

 in the benefit of the tonnage botmty secured by an Act of Parliament 

 passed in that year. From this gathering the present Scottish 

 herring fleet dates its origin. The print is dated from the London 

 Magazine of 1752. Another print of the same period shows 

 the Pelham and Carteret busses, which are further referred to 

 in Chapter V, at sea off Brassa in the Shetlands on the 14th July, 

 1750. Other prints showing the evolution of the trawl and the 

 ancient method of drifting for herring are from Duhamel's account 

 of the Sea Fisheries, published at Neuchatel in 1776, and from the 

 fishery plates in Diderot's great Encyclopedie (1751-77). 



Students of the evolution of methods of sea fishing would do well 

 to consult a " Recueil de planches de L'Encyclopedie. Planches 

 des pgches," published by Panckoucke at Paris in 1793. Many of 

 the illustrations are from the earlier works above referred to, but 

 others are new. I am unable to verify the title of the Encyclopedic, 

 but the volume in my possession is entitled (on the binding) " Ency- 

 clopedie Methodique." 



I am also obliged to Mr. John Murray for permission to quote 

 from an article I contributed to the Quarterly Review, to Messrs. 

 Cassell and Co. for permission to use illustrations of the develop- 

 ment of the plaice taken from Dr. Francis Ward's Marvels of Fish 

 Life, and to H.M. Stationery Office for the use of two charts on 

 which are based the maps of the trawling and fishing grounds. 



J. T. Jenkins. 



16 Walton's Parade, 

 Preston. 



