MU. T. SOUTIIWKLL ON TUK IIEllUING FISUEUY. 
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Lowestoft from June to the midille of July, resulted very satisfac- 
torily to all concerned, more especially to the Lowestoft boats, which 
are much more numerously engaged in it than those from Yarmouth ; 
it was consequently continued a week or two longer than usual, 
nearly to the end of .July, and is admitted to have been the best 
season experienced for several years. 
From the home midsummer voyage the boats proceed to the 
North Sea off Scarborough, Whitby, etc., where the Lowestoft boats 
are in the habit of landing their fish fresh, whilst the Yarmouth 
boats as a rule bring their fish homo salted. The fact of scarcely 
any demand existing at Lowestoft for that class of salted 
Herrings during August and September, consequent upon there 
being no export trade to the Mediterranean worth mentioning 
carried on from that port, causes most Lowestoft boats that run up 
with Herrings to deliver their cargoes at Yarmouth. This will 
explain the small returns from Lowestoft during the two months 
mentioned, as compared with those of Yarmouth. Sjieaking of 
the Mediterranean markets, to which by far the larger portion of 
Yarmouth herrings are consigned, I regret to say the retunis show 
no improvement in price, and it is feared curers will not realise the 
hopes that, considering the falling off of the catch in the latter 
part of the season, they were justly entitled to indulge in. 
This trade, the mainstay of the Yarmouth Fishery, is entirely in 
the hands of foreign salesmen abroad, /.e. as far as the disposal of 
the fish in their markets is concerned, and to this cause, in some 
degree, it is thought the low prices sent home may be to some 
extent attributed. Efforts are now being made to get the duty taken 
off cured herrings exported to Italy. Pilchards have received that 
happy immunity, and I trust the Herring interest will be equally 
successful. 
In October the real business of the autumn home voyage 
commenced in earnest, and all went fairly well for a time, the 
deliveries being excellent and the j)rices fairly remunerative ; in 
October the deliveries at Yarmouth were 7537 lasts as against 4G15 
the previous year, and at Lowestoft they were 3G33 lasts against 
2053 ; but with the commencement of November, which should bo 
the fisherman’s harvest month, bad weather cpiite put a stop to the 
fishing. What few fish were brought in came to hand in bad 
condition and sold accordingly; added to which, the silting 
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