MR. T. J. WIGG ON THE HERRING FISHERY. 
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NOTES ON THE HERRING FISHERY OF 1907. 
By T. J. Wigg. 
Read 31 st March, 1908. 
The results of the Herring Fishery of 1907 are very sm prising. 
The net catch exceeded that of 1902. which up to the present 
was regarded as the record year. The last season, however, 
has seen that record beaten and the enormous quantity of 
52,122 lasts was registered at Yarmouth, and 39.197 lasts at 
Lowestoft, as the year’s catch. 
This does not represent the whole number of Herrings taken, 
as many of the boats, on that memorable Tuesday, October 
22nd, were obliged to throw the whole of their catch over- 
board owing to the fact that room at the quay side could not 
be found for all the boats. A large quantity of Herrings were 
also condemned as unfit for food, and were sent off to the 
Corporation refuse destructor to be consumed. 
The Scotch boats began to arrive at Yarmouth during the 
first days of October, and trains bringing large contingents of 
Scottish curers and their following of coopers, carters and 
gutting girls were arriving at Yarmouth almost daily, until 
it was estimated that, with fishermen and shore hands, the 
Scottish colony at Yarmouth added something like 10.000 
to the normal population for about three months. 
Taking into consideration the enormous catch on the east 
roast of Scotland during the early summer, it was anticipated 
by many persons that the East Anglian fishery would be 
somewhat of a failure, either in the amount of the catch, or, 
if there should be a good fishing, a glut of the continental 
markets would assuredly follow, and in consequence the 
prices of the herrings would greatly depreciate. Subsequent 
events proved the fallacy of this statement. 
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