834 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
The average catch over the whole Yarmouth fleet was 820 
crans per boat. In 1912 it was 750 craps. The highest boat’s 
catch for the season last year was 2660 crans, and the lowest 
754 crans. In all, there were 20,480 separate landings, and 
the busiest day was on October 16th, when 655 boats delivered 
42,692 crans, which is another record. The busiest week was 
that which ended on October 18th, when 3155 boats landed 
198,787 crans. The season’s catch was distributed thus: — 
Landed at the Fish Wharf 721,112 crans, against 604,193 crans 
in 1912; at Gorleston, 94,037 crans, against 71,159 crans in 
1912; and at other wharves, 9064 crans, against 7622 crans in 
the preceding year. The Gorleston share of the fishing is thus 
steadily growing into importance. 
Yarmouth does an immense business in the exportation of 
brined herrings to the Continent, as is borne out by the follow- 
ing figures. The shipments to December 27th totalled 721,598 
barrels and 225,952 half-barrels, an increase on the 1912 
exports of 142,055 barrels and 66,858 half-barrels, while there 
were several thousand more barrels still to ship. Over a 
hundred steamers were required to carry these herrings abroad. 
Russia was the best customer, taking 303,133 barrels and 
136,406 half-barrels, Germany coming next with 304,513 
barrels and 77,065 half-barrels. Three large boats were loaded 
for Odessa and other ports in the Black Sea, and the remainder 
went to the Baltic ports, Riga, St. Petersburg, Libau, Konigs- 
berg, Stettin, Dantzic, Memel, etc. 
There is also a large export of smoked fish to Italy, Greece, 
Turkey, Palestine, the Levant generally, and the Mediterranean 
islands. Some go coastwise, via London and Hull, for trans- 
shipment, but the larger proportion are sent by rail to Liverpool 
docks for direct shipment to such ports as Genoa, Leghorn, 
Naples, Palermo, Malta, Piraeus, Syra, Jaffa, Cyprus, and so 
on. We understand that a careful estimate puts the number of 
barrels thus sent to Southern Europe at 100,000 during the 
past autumn. 
