. Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. An account of the practical working of the various fisheries around the British Islands. With illustrations and descriptions of the boats, nets, and other gear in use, by Edmund W. H. Holdsworth. Fisheries -- Great Britain; Fishing boats. FISHING STATIONS—ENGLAND. 233 structed on the same principle as those we have de- scribed as being in use at Grimsby/ but in order that they may offer less resistance to the stream their ends are rounded off, giving them a somewhat boat- shaped appearance. The chests at G-rirasby being kept in the quiet water of the fish
. Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. An account of the practical working of the various fisheries around the British Islands. With illustrations and descriptions of the boats, nets, and other gear in use, by Edmund W. H. Holdsworth. Fisheries -- Great Britain; Fishing boats. FISHING STATIONS—ENGLAND. 233 structed on the same principle as those we have de- scribed as being in use at Grimsby/ but in order that they may offer less resistance to the stream their ends are rounded off, giving them a somewhat boat- shaped appearance. The chests at G-rirasby being kept in the quiet water of the fish dock, the oblong shape is adopted as being more convenient for stowing a number of them to- ,1 1 • J • J • Harwich Cod-chest. gether, besides providmg more space inside and entailing less expense in their con- struction. A few deep-sea trawlers occasionally work from Harwich; and there are a good many small trawlers engaged in the fishery for prawns or " red shrimps" along the coast between Harwich and Orford. Trawl- ing is also carried on in the river, and a net called " a Trim-tram " is likewise in use there. This net is essen- tially the same as the shrimp-net used by the Leigh fishermen for catching the brown shrimp; but it has a flat triangular frame fixed in front of the lower beam and resting on the ground, so that the mouth of the net is not likely to fall back and cannot fall forward with this projecting shoe. The point of this angular frame is slightly turned up to prevent it from running into the ground, and the tow-rope is made fast to it instead of to the beam, as in the shrimp-net. The contrivance strikes one as particularly clumsy, and the projecting frame must certainly interfere with the entry of the fish into the net, although complaints have been made of the destruction of small fish by its use. The mis- ' See Line-fishing, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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