MR. C. STAC Y-W ATSON ON TUB HERRING FISHERY. 
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flower of exclusively woodland habit, finds no place at all in the 
old lists, although it grows plentifully enough in the Lound woods. 
Some sentences in Paget’s introduction, alluding to the scantiness 
of timber in his time, lead me to think that some of the copses 
which are now fairly frequent about Lound and the neighbourhood 
have been planted since. Hoping that 1 have not encroached too 
much on the valuable time of this Society, with these few bare 
facts, and thanking you for according me so patient a hearing, 
1 will bring my paper to a conclusion. 
II. 
NOTES ON THE HERRING FISHERY OF 1895. 
I >y C. Stacy- Watson. 
Read ‘27th January, 1896. 
In presenting these notes, I purpose deviating slightly from the 
limits hitherto observed, and to touch upon some contingent 
occupations in order to indicate the wide-spreading nature of the 
interests involved in this important industry. 
We will begin with the boats, and fishing implements, and gear. 
The original value of a Herring Fishing-boat fully equipped for sea 
is from <£800 to £1000, and her nets and gear £300; now, 
estimating the 338 local boats, old and new, at an average value of 
£500, and their nets, &c. at £200, we have a total of £700 each 
boat, or a capital sum of £236,600; to this add value of the 200 
Scotch boats and their fishing gear at £500 each, a total of £100,000, 
we have then a total capital of £336,600 employed in catching 
the Herrings landed at Yarmouth and Lowestoft from the North 
Sea and Home fishing this year, to which must be added the wages 
of some 5000 fishermen who are mostly paid on the share system, 
