MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE HERRING FISHERY. 
405 
and 59 Scotch, employing some 2033 hands, with a return of 
9110 lasts (as compared with 8153 lasts in the previous season), 
or a total of 26,348 lasts, which at an average of £7 per last 
represent a sum of £184,436, or a deficit of £79,792 as compared 
with 1891, notwithstanding an increase of 4329 lasts in the returns, 
owing to the prices realised being lower. 
As to the general results of the year’s fishing, with a few 
exceptions, it is considered to he a very poor one for the catchers, 
the prices ruling so low ; and, notwithstanding their exemption 
from the losses which so frequently occur from destruction of nets 
and gear owing to had weather, there cannot he much margin for 
profits. On the other hand, the curers who suffered last year will 
probably reap the advantage of the lower prices which will enable 
them to compete more successfully in the foreign markets. From 
the labourers’ point of view, their earnings being in proportion to the 
numbers of fish landed, the season must have been an improvement 
on the preceding one. 
Return of Herrings landed at Yarmouth and Lowestoft 
Fish-Wharves in 1802. 
Yarmouth. Lowestoft. 
leasts 
Thousands 
Hundreds 
Lasts 
Thousands 
Hundreds 
( 13.200) 
ua*» 
(UN) 
(13,200) 
WHO) 
WH) 
/•January . 
— 
— 
— 
. 
— 
— 
\ February . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
Spring 
1 March 
8 
— 
8 
. 114 
6 
5 
I April 
18 
8 
3 
. 621 
5 
3 
V. May 
11 
— 
— 
. 288 
7 
5 
Mid- 
< J une 
168 
6 
7 
. 427 
5 
5 
Summer 
i July 
290 
9 
8 
. 631 
6 
8 
North 
( August 
936 
4 
o 
47 
2 
3 
Sea 
( September . 
2135 
5 
2 
. 102 
4 
3 
Autumn 
/ October 
4755 
4 
7 
. 1517 
5 
8 
Home 
j N ovember . 
7682 
9 
— 
. 4586 
6 
6 
Voyage 
( December . 
1229 
9 
1 
772 
4 
3 
Yarmouth 
17,237 
7 
8 
9110 
4 
9 
Lowestoft 
9110 
4 
9 
Total 26.348 
