MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE HERRING FISHERY. 
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Mildenhall Fen, where the Bustard was shot, is in the north-west 
corner of Suffolk, within an hour’s walk of the Norfolk boundary ; 
so it is quite probable that this unfortunate bird passed some of 
its last days or hours in the county of Norfolk, hence this note 
to the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society. Mr. Howlett 
has since informed me that this bird was purchased of him by 
the Honorable Walter Rothschild, of Tring Park. 
XII. 
NOTES ON THE HERRING FISHERY OF 1890. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., Vice-P resilient. 
Read 31st March, 1801. 
The past season has illustrated another phase of the ever-varying 
nature of the Herring Fishery of the east coast, and goes to prove 
that the paying character of the voyage is almost in inverse ratio to 
the number of fish taken, for, with a return of eight or nine 
thousand lasts less, the season of 1S90 has been a fairly paying 
one as compared with those of the two previous years with their 
much larger catches. And this applies to all concerned, with the 
exception of the labourers who handle the fish on shore, under 
which heading (counting, carting, “ riving,” packing, &*c., amounting 
in all to about thirty shillings per last) some £13,000 less has 
been expended at Yarmouth alone ; but this sum has undoubtedly 
been saved to the catchers and curers, who have not been called 
upon to pay for handling unprofitable produce. 
At Lowestoft a few fish were landed in February, but the 
