MR. C. STACY-WAT80N ON THE HERRING FISHERY. 
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and send a thrill of anxiety into the hearts of so many weary 
watchers and waiters for the return of loved ones. Happily no 
lives were lost, although some property was destroyed or injured. 
The weather on the whole was good, and the boats were seldom 
kept in the harbour, so the market was fairly regularly supplied. 
The moons falling full about the middle of each month were not 
accompanied with those sudden changes of weather as has so often 
been witnessed, so that, on the whole, the North Sea and Home 
fishings may bo described as very favourable to the catchers, and 
were continued with success into December, the December catch 
being the greatest known for many years, viz., 2,4-52 ; these figures 
have only been exceeded twice within the last twenty years. 
The total number of Herrings landed, North Sea and Homo 
fishings : 
1893. 1894. 
I.n*t8 Thousands Hundreds leasts Thousand* Hundred* 
Yarmouth . 15.117 3 1 . 17.407 0 4 
Lowestoft . (5,352 5 9 . 5,878 4 2 
Total . 21,4(59 9 0 . 23,285 4 (5 
An increase of 1,815.5.6 as compared with 1893. 
The total catch of the four fishings during the year is 24,441.6.0. 
Last* Thousands Hundred* 
Yarmouth . . 18,5(53 1 8 
Lowestoft . . 5,878 4 2 
24,4-41 (5 0 
In 1893, for the same period, the catch was : 
leasts Thousands Hundreds 
Yarmouth . . 16,184 3 3 
Lowestoft . . 8,157 7 8 
24,342 1 1 
So that 1894 exceeded the previous year by 99.4.9 only. 
The gross value of the North Sea and Home catch (the greatest 
fishing) may be estimated, in round figures, at .£207,748 ; and it 
may fairly be estimated that some £20,000 beyond this was 
distributed for labour to those who worked amongst the Herrings 
on shore. 
1 desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. \Y. J. Xutman, 
the Borough Accountant of Great Yarmouth, and to the Harbour 
Master of Lowestoft, for the following particulars of the catches 
of the various fishings. 
