MU. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE UEKK1NO FISHERY. 
217 
sea, on the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk alone, amounts to the 
enormous weight of 40,865 tons, of the value of £100,680 each 
year. During the past ten years, only three, 1881, 1883, and 
1887, can be said to have been really good years; 1883 and 1800 
were fairly paying years ; and 1882, 1884, 1880, 1888, and 1880, 
although all productive above the average (with the exception of 
1882, which was very disastrous to life and property), have been 
black-letter years to masters and men alike. 
Return of Herrings landed at Yarmouth .and Lowestoft 
Fish 
-Wharves 
IN 
1890. 
Yahmoith. 
I-H >VV KnTOKT. 
I«a*U 
TIumwiihU Humlmls LftKtn 
TllDllftAluU 
Hund min 
da.200). 
11320). 
(132). 
(13.200). 
(13J0). 
(132). 
/'January . 
— 
— 
— 
. 
— 
— 
\ February 
— 
— 
— 
4 
1 
— 
Spring -j March 
50 
l 
3 
2G6 
•) 
2 
/ April 
51 
7 
4 
329 
— 
3 
\May 
2 
3 
H 
94 
8 
7 
Mid- ( June 
64. 
5 
7 
. 129 
9 
5 
Summer ( July 
2!) 
7 
6 
. 249 
4 
5 
North ( August . 
550 
5 
9 
52 
9 
3 
Sea 1 September 
2098 
i 
— 
. 75 
4 
2 
Autumn f October . 
5164 
i 
2 
. 3018 
7 
4 
Home ■] November 
5124 
9 
6 
. 2418 
7 
8 
Voyage (. December 
1412 
— 
9 
. 943 
9 
3 
14,554 
4 
4 
. 7,583 
4 
2 
7,583 
4 
2 
22,137 8 6 
Since tho above Avas written, at a meeting of the Yarmouth 
Town Council, held on tho 14th April, 1801, a Committee was 
appointed to “ consider and report upon the present state of the 
fishing industry, as carried on at that port.” In the course of the 
discussion Mr. Nor ford Suftling, one of the principal fish salesmen 
of Yarmouth, is reported in the ‘ Yarmouth Mercury ’ to have spoken 
as follows with regard to the Herring Fishery : “ The cause of the 
failure of the Herring fishery was, to a great extent, the over 
abundant supply of fish. It might seem paradoxical, but it was 
nevertheless true, that the bigger the harvest of the sea was, as 
regards 1 lerring, the bigger was the failure as regarded the catchers 
and others. There was a certain demand for salted Herrings, and 
