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MR. T. J. WIGG ON THE HERRING FISHERY. 
Scotland. They accompany their boats and the fishermen, and in 
fair weather, when the boats can face the sea, they work from 
fourteen to sixteen hours a day. Stormy weather means slackness 
of work for them. June usually terminates the northern season, 
and there is a general move from Stornaway to Fraserburgh, 
Aberdeen, and Peterhead, thence to Scarborough, Grimsby, 
Yarmouth, and Lowestoft; and then home to their knitting, their 
mending of nets, and the winter life of the fisher-girl. 
Return of Herrings Landed at Yarmouth in 1901. 
Month. 
Lasts. 
Month. 
Lasts. 
J anuary 
— 
Brought forward 3 1 9 
February 
— 
July 
. 623 
March . 
1 
August . 
. 923 
April 
41 
September 
. 1.721 
May 
93 
October 
. 14,787 
June 
. 184 
November 
. 9,535 
December 
. 1,725 
Carried forward 319 
Total 
. 29,633 
Number of Yarmouth boats . 
155 
JJ 
Scotch and other boats 
474 
Return of 
Herrings Landed at Lowestoft 
in 1901 
Month. 
Lasts. 
Month. 
Lasts. 
January 
— 
Brought forward 1,471 
February 
— 
July 
. 1096 
March . 
72 
August . 
46 
April 
. 574 
September 
. 101 
May 
. 541 
October . 
. 9,145 
June 
. 284 
November 
. 7,917 
December 
. 1,996 
Carried forward 1,471 
Total 
.21,772 
Number of Lowestoft boats . 
„ Scotch „ 
„ West Country boats 
222 
305 
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Additional Notes by Mr. A. Patterson. 
The Herring Fishery of 1901 has been, from a Naturalist’s stand- 
point, an uninteresting one ; its one feature has been- — the Herring 
and the Herring solely. An entire absence of rapacious fishes, and 
an almost equal scarcity of Cetaceans have characterised it, only 
