MU. T. SOUTllWliLL ON TIIK IIKUKING FISHKUY. 
085 
The loss to Lowestoft alone, I am told, will be some £20,000 at 
least. 
The look-out at Lowestoft, notwithstanding their midsummer 
voyage having boon a good one, must be very black indeed ; and at 
Yarmouth, although a few fortunate boats may have made up well, 
such cases have been rpiite exceptional. About 740 Home and 
442 Scotch boats, employing some 8100 men and boys, sailed from 
Yarmoutli and Lowestoft. 
It is, as I have said on previous occasions, a very dithcult 
matter to ariive at anything like an average of the price produced 
by tlie Herrings landed, but I am informed by a boat-owner and 
merchant of great experience, that £8 per last would be .something 
like a fair average. 
I am, as on previous occasions, much indebttai to Mr. A. I/. 
Cowing for his kind assistance, also to Cajitain Massingham for the 
Lowestoft oHicial returns. At Yarmouth, 1 regret the death of my 
late friend Mr. H. Teasdel ; but Mr. Nutman, who has succeeded 
him as Corporation Accountant, has kindly furnished me with the 
returns from that port. 
Hetduns of Herrings landed at YARAtouTn and Lowestoft 
Fish-Wharves in 1HH8. 
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t.Tauuarv . 
TbouMiitln 
Humlrwltt 
lAatn 
(lS.200i. 
ThiMiMinAU 
HniHiiTtI* 
February. 
-- 
— 
— 
5 
2 
0 
Spring 
March 
87 
2 
7 
324 
8 
3 
April 
8 
t 
1040 
1 
4 
VMay 
108 
3 
— 
GO 5 
5 
0 
Mid- ( .rune 
18 
3 
1 
135 
5 
1 
Summer ^ .luly 
220 
1 
— 
013 
0 
4 
North ^ 
August . 
20.>1 
4 
5 
ISO 
/ 
8 
Sea ( September 
2787 
3 
5 
140 
4 
— 
Autumn i 
October . 
75.‘17 
3 
0 
3033 
2 
2 
Home < 
NoAomber 
5.380 
8 
— 
2241 
2 
8 
4”oyage ( 
December 
1004 
3 
0 
072 
5 
8 
10,589 
9,053 
20,5-12 
1 
5 
7 
7 
0 
3 
0053 
5 
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