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WINTER HERRING FISHERY. 



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Winter Herring Fishery - - - - - lv 



Winter Herring Fishing now an important Industry lv 



Districts where prosecuted on East Coast - - - - lv 



Particulars of Fishing - - - - - •- - lv 



Boats very successful - - - - - - - lvi 



How Herrings were disposed of - - - - - lvi 



Winter Herring Fishing on West Coast - - - lvi 



Gross Catch of Winter Herrings in excess of any former year - lvi 



HOOPING OF HERRING BARRELS. 



Hooping of Herring Barrels - - - - - - lvi 



Curers Petition that Herring Barrels may be hooped with either 



Wooden or Iron Hoops - „ lvi 



Reasons urged for change ------ lvi 



Board got Statutory Power to do what was wished - lvi 



Additional Regulations made - - - - - - lvii 



To what extent taken advantage of - - - - lvii 



STANDARD MEASURE FOR HERRINGS. 



Standard Measure for Herrings - - 

 Fishermen desire that a Quarter Cran Measure be legalised - 

 Reasons therefor - - - - - 



How matter now stands - - - - • 



Board resolve to keep a Stamped Cran Measure in District Offices to 

 test size of other measures ------ 



COD, LING, AND HAKE FISHERY. 



Cod, Ling, and Hake Fishery - lviii 



Returns in 1886 against recent years ----- lviii 



Quantity cured in Vessels, about twice as much as in 1885 - - lviii 



Yield of Districts ------- lviii 



Rich Fishing Grounds ------ lviii 



Swedish Vessels engaged ------ lviii 



Cod, Ling, and Hake cured and exported in 1885 and 1886 - - lviii 



Export to Spain diminished owing to differential duties - - lix 



Cod, Ling, and Hake cured on Board of Vessels - - - lix 



Cod, Ling, and Hake cured on Shore ----- lix 



Total of Cod, Ling, and Hake cured in Vessels and on Shore - lix 



Cod, Ling, and Hake exported ----- lix 



Cod, Ling, and Hake cured and exported, 1820 to 1886 - - lix 



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