The British Fish TradeW. Clowes and Sons, 1883 - 69 страници |
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afford annually barrels Billingsgate boats bomaree bounty Bristol Channel British fishermen British Islands carried catch coast consequence consumer conveyed inland Cornwall crab cured fish curer dandy drift drift-boats drift-nets Dutch eels employed England and Wales English export trade fish are caught fish caught fish markets fish trade fishing-boats fleet fresh Government Grimsby Hull and Grimsby increasing industry Ireland Irish fisheries Irish fishermen Irish Inspectors Isle kipper labour large number line fishing mackerel mackerel fishery Manx modes of fishing Morecambe Bay Mount's Bay nets North Sea Norwegian oysters Parliament patronage perhaps pilchards portion ports price of fish probably protection quantity retail salmon salmon fisheries Scotch fishermen Scotch herring fishery Scotland seine-net Silver Pit smacks sprats Strome Ferry supply Thames tons of fish trade in cured trade in fish tradesman trawl trawlers United Kingdom vessels whitebait whole wholesale market worth yield
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Страница 21 - XXIII. The use of any instrument or engine which serves only to cut or destroy nets is forbidden. The presence of any such engine on board a boat is also forbidden. The high contracting parties engage to take the necessary measures for preventing the embarkation of such engines on board fishing boats.
Страница 26 - ... Captain Smith, who was sent to Shetland, in the year just mentioned, expressly to report on the Dutch fishery. Impressed with the vastness of the enterprise, the gallant captain was unable to conceal his astonishment at" his countrymen, who could look on "Shamefully passive, while Batavian fleets Defraud us of the glittering finny swarms That heave our firths, and crowd upon our shores.
Страница 25 - Kingdom; in 1882, 862,000 cwt., worth £1,659,000, were so imported. In 1842, on the other hand, " In Scotland the word "trawl" is in common use. But the trawl of Scotland is not the beam-trawl of England, but the seine-net. It may be added that in the United States the trawl is the long line. There seems to be something peculiarly irritating to fishermen in the name of trawl. Scotch fishermen denounce the seine-net as " a trawl : " English fishermen denounce the beam-trawl ; and American fishermen...
Страница 10 - No more dams I'll make for fish; Nor fetch in firing At requiring, Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish ; 'Ban 'Ban, Ca — Caliban, Has a new master — Get a new man.
Страница 63 - bomaree " fulfils the same functions in the fish market which the " regrater " used to discharge in the corn market. He buys fish for which there is no immediate demand at the moment, and sells it again later on in the day. A good many people think that the interposition of the " bomaree " has the effect of further raising the price of fish and that it is therefore injurious. The clamour which Englishmen of another generation used to raise against the "regrater" is raised now against the "bomaree.
Страница 21 - The high contracting parties engage to propose to their respective Legislatures the necessary measures for insuring the execution of the present convention, and particularly for the punishment by either fine or imprisonment, or by both, of persons who may contravene the provisions of Articles VI.
Страница 61 - Trawled fish is divided for market purposes into two classes, distinguished by the names of ' prime ' and ' offal ' ; the former consisting of turbot, brill, soles, and dorys, and the latter of haddock, plaice, and other kinds of inferior fish " — Holdsworth's " Deep Sea Fishery,
Страница 39 - ... be annually taken in Scotland. In Ireland and the Isle of Man herrings are measured by the mease, which contains 525 fish ; and the Irish fishery, according to the Irish Inspectors, produces from about 50,000 to about 200,000 mease a year, or from about 25,000,000 to about 100,000,000 fish a year. In England, herrings are usually sold by the last, each last nominally containing 10,000, but in reality 13,200 fish.* It is impossible to give any accurate statistics of the yield of the English Herring...
Страница 63 - Symposiaes," that, among the Syrians and Greeks, to abstain from fish was esteemed a piece of sanctity ; that, though the Greeks were encamped on the Hellespont, there is not the least intimation that they ate fish or any sea-provision ; and that the companions of Ulysses, in the twelfth book of the Odyssey, never sought for fish till all their other provisions were consumed, and that the same necessity...
Страница 63 - bomaree," however, is really fulfilling a useful purpose. But for his intervention many small retail tradesmen would be forced to attend the market at an hour when their attendance would be inconvenient to them. The " bomaree " enables the small costermonger to postpone his visit to Billingsgate till he has disposed of his purchases of the previous day. Middlemen are never popular characters, yet the middleman, if his functions are examined, will generally be found to supply a public want, and to...