CHAPTER XIV 



SOME BRITISH SEA FISHES AND FISHING 

 {continued) 



What the herring is to Scotland and to the east 

 coast of England, the pilchard is to Cornwall — a 

 great factor in its industrial life. 



Pilchards are not largely found in any other 

 pai't of Great Britain, though in Guernsey and 

 Ireland they swarni, but, for some inscrutable 

 reason, are disregarded. Three Cornish districts 

 produce them — from Hartland Point in North 

 Devon to Land's End, St. Ives being the centre ; 

 from Land's End to the Lizard, Penzance being 

 the headquarters ; from the Lizard to the .Start 

 Point in South Devon, Falmouth being the chief 

 station — a somewhat restricted area, yet the 

 " takes " used to be enormous, a catch of 27,000,000 

 in one day at St. Ives being recorded. ^ But 



' On September 13, 1904, about 4I million pilchards were 

 caught at St. Ives, the largest catch of recent years. 

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