of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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salmon disease. M. Martin is working at the subject of fish parasites, 

 both trematodes and nematodes, and great quantities of material from 

 the Boulogne shore are being collected, which may be useful in the 

 subsequent investigations. 



The following are abstracts of some of the more interesting of the 

 recent reports from the station. 



Dr Sauvage was commissioned by the Minister of Agriculture to visit 

 the principal fishing ports of the east of England, and ascertain the fishery 

 organisation of these places.* Accordingly, Lowestoft and Yarmouth 

 were selected as the seats of the herring fishing, while Hull and Grimsby 

 were visited as ports from which trawlers fished, and the results of the 

 Commissioner's observations are given in his Report. The first portion of 

 the Report deals with various questions in regard to the fishing. The 

 organisation for rapid and economical transport of fish from these ports 

 is described in detail, and Dr Sauvage considers that the facilities and 

 management are admirable. The equipment for trawling at Hull and 

 Grimsby is given, and attention is called to the advantages of this kind 

 of fishing, especially by steam vessels, in the North Sea. The fact that 

 steam trawlers are at work during the whole year is noted, and the 

 relative advantages of steam trawlers versus sailing trawlers, with 

 attendant steamers as fish carriers, are mentioned. The fishing places in 

 the North Sea, from the English coast to Jutland and Schleswig and from 

 the coast of Hanover to Kinnaird Head, embracing the Dogger Bank, 

 the Eastern Mudhole, the Great and Little Fishing Banks, the Jutland 

 Bank, the Great Silver Pit, and other fishing areas are given, and the 

 positions of these, their depths, and the best seasons for fishing them, 

 supply an amount of information which will be equally useful to French 

 and other fishermen. 



The oyster beds at the south-east of the Dogger Bank, at the Outer 

 Silver Pit, twenty-five miles east of Botney Cut, are noted, and it is stated, 

 on the authority of Mr Olsen of Grimsby, that a single boat on the last 

 mentioned bank secured thousands of oysters in four hours. The parts 

 of the English coast at which shrimping is carried on are mentioned 

 generally. In the cod fishing the Grimsby fishermen prefer to bait their 

 lines with lampreys ; and the arrangements for keeping the cod alive in 

 the smacks for despatch to Billingsgate are described. The particulars of 

 the herring fisheries are taken from the Reports of the Fishery Board for 

 Scotland, and the season and apparatus for the mackerel fishery of 

 Lowestoft and Penzance are given. 



The second part of the Report deals with the preparation of the white 

 fish for the market and the utilisation of fish refuse. Attention is 

 directed to the preservation of herrings fresh in ice, and as ' bloaters ' and 

 1 kippers,' and to the smoking of haddocks, as well as to the boracic acid 

 method of preserving. 



The concluding portion of the Report is restricted to questions con- 

 nected with transport, the service of trains on the Great Eastern route 

 being detailed, as well as the rate of carriage for different kinds of fish. 

 Statistics of the export trade of Scottish herrings and the values of barrels 

 of herring at Stettin are given. 



Dr Sauvage concludes a valuable Report, which shows that France means 

 to profit by as full and perfect an acquaintance with what is being done in 

 fishery matters in Great Britain, as it is possible for a special Commissioner 

 to obtain, by impressing on his countrymen the necessity of cheap means 

 of transit to ensure the development of French fisheries. 



* Rapport sur la peche clans les principaux ports de Vest clc VAnglcterre, par M. le 

 Dr H. E. Sauvage. Paris, 1889. 



