36 MR. A. H. PATTERSON ON A DECAYED TRAWL-FISHERY. 
trial trip on the 24th, at a speed of six or seven knots an 
hour.” 
“ 1874 (Dec.). The returns of the weight of fish carried 
from Yarmouth by the Great Eastern Railway this year were 
27,517 tons, as against 20,399 tons i n *860 ; 27,222 in 1861 ; 
28,346 in 1862 ; 31,947 in 1863 ; 34,432 in 1864 ; 22,764 in 
1869 ; 26,894 in 1870 ; 31,898 in 1871 ; 27,400 in 1872 ; and 
27,864 in 1873. The railway books containing the returns 
from 1865 to 1868 were destroyed by fire.” 
I think I may safely venture to say that the above figures 
covered transport of herrings as well as trawl-fish. 
In the same little book, a jumbled up mass of statistics 
covering the Herring and the Trawling fishery, it was stated 
that in 
“ 1882. In Yarmouth there are 621 fishing boats, 333 
being smacks and the remainder luggers ; their value is 
£372,000, and their nets and gear £100,000 more, . . . the 
crews 5160. Scotch boats 300, and 120 smacks from Gorleston. 
Value of fish caught by trawlers of this port £325,000. . . . 
Trawl fish caught in 1877, 11,863 packages ; 1878, 39,508 ; 
1879, 3 1.072 ; 1880, 28,400 ; 1881, 24,003. The dues paid on 
the trawl fish for the corresponding years were : — £59, £164, 
£129, £118, and £100.” 
Two items referring to the building of smacks will give 
a very fair idea of the busy scenes witnessed at the ship- 
yards : — 
“ 1878. Launches Jan. 2nd, dandy smack ‘ Charlie ’ ; 
Jan. nth, smack ‘Rover’; Feb. 7th, smack ‘Daylight’; 
May 16th, dandy cutter ‘ Susie ’ ; June 5th, dandy cutter 
‘ Moggy ’ ; June 17th, smack ‘ Oak ’ ; August, smacks ‘ Myrtle,’ 
‘ Prompt,’ and ‘ Violet May ’ ; Aug. 29th, trawling smack, 
‘ Cyprus ’ ; Sept. ‘ Hilda,’ ; Sept. 18th, ‘ Progress ’ ; same 
month ‘ William,’ ‘ Henry,’ and ‘ Ettie.’ ” 
‘‘1884. Launches: Jan. 7th, the trawler ‘Ethel May’; 
Jan. 29th, smack ‘ Sir Francis Burdett ’ ; July 26th, smack 
‘ Volex ’ ; July 28th, ‘Crocus’; Aug. 18th, ‘Admiral’; 
Sept. 10th, ‘ Florence May,’ ; Nov. smack, ‘ David ; ’ Oct. 
20th, the ‘ Annandale ’ ; Oct. 20th, smack ‘ Proceed.’ ” 
