,
:
AND DEOENNIAL SUMMARY.
-
177
.
_
(with the exception of August) besides those mentioned, as
shown in the accompanying table.
February seemed to be the
month in which the maximum number was obtained
,
In considering general shery questions the‘history of the
.
herrin g offers interesting reections. In our youth the herrings
—
were
caught as a rule from 12 to 16 miles from shore, and
vast multitudes in August at the [Old Hake,‘a region off ‘ the
Fife coast between Barbet Ness and the Carr Book, a distance
of about 8%
Shooting their nets close inshore_over
rocks and shingle, it used to be a common saying amongst the
men
“no _herring no nets,” since the plentiful captures of
herrings buoyed their nets from the sharp rocks, and vice verset
the empty nets Were ruptured by contact with the rocks. Since
that date the herrings have deserted the Old Hake, so that
for many years no shing of note occurred there, and even now
it is only occasionally that they return. Viewing the question
broadly, it is generally admitted that the boats require to go
‘
further out to sea for the capture of -herrings than in the olden
‘
time.
Yet few would assert that this is a proof of the de—
…
cadence of the herring—shery and the diminution of the species.
‘
Applying the same’aigument to the haddock, it is remarkable
how promptly the same sequence is brought forward as a proof
_
'
of its approaching
at the hands of the ubiquitous
'
Ÿ
trawlers.
The mere fact that shing has now, even if it were
_
always the case, to be carried on
at a greater
distance from
shore than in the days of our fOrefathers does not indiCate the
’
'
'
ruin of a shery, especially when other features
are considered.
Again,thè annual consumption
whitebait—has 110 appreÇiable
‘
effect on the abundance of the herrin—g.
;
_
»
——
‘
On board the large sea—going traw1œ—s this shis a ra1«ity, only
143 having been procüred
in Januaryand February and 1 in August
during the
of 1884,.chieÿ
in the n'Œgh—
_
bourhood of the
such-captures are ina sense aceidenteÿl
since the sh asa
the meshcs
:
…, test ofæhes…anmthgStAnd1WB-VNtmy
:
AND DEOENNIAL SUMMARY.
-
177
.
_
(with the exception of August) besides those mentioned, as
shown in the accompanying table.
February seemed to be the
month in which the maximum number was obtained
,
In considering general shery questions the‘history of the
.
herrin g offers interesting reections. In our youth the herrings
—
were
caught as a rule from 12 to 16 miles from shore, and
vast multitudes in August at the [Old Hake,‘a region off ‘ the
Fife coast between Barbet Ness and the Carr Book, a distance
of about 8%
Shooting their nets close inshore_over
rocks and shingle, it used to be a common saying amongst the
men
“no _herring no nets,” since the plentiful captures of
herrings buoyed their nets from the sharp rocks, and vice verset
the empty nets Were ruptured by contact with the rocks. Since
that date the herrings have deserted the Old Hake, so that
for many years no shing of note occurred there, and even now
it is only occasionally that they return. Viewing the question
broadly, it is generally admitted that the boats require to go
‘
further out to sea for the capture of -herrings than in the olden
‘
time.
Yet few would assert that this is a proof of the de—
…
cadence of the herring—shery and the diminution of the species.
‘
Applying the same’aigument to the haddock, it is remarkable
how promptly the same sequence is brought forward as a proof
_
'
of its approaching
at the hands of the ubiquitous
'
Ÿ
trawlers.
The mere fact that shing has now, even if it were
_
always the case, to be carried on
at a greater
distance from
shore than in the days of our fOrefathers does not indiCate the
’
'
'
ruin of a shery, especially when other features
are considered.
Again,thè annual consumption
whitebait—has 110 appreÇiable
‘
effect on the abundance of the herrin—g.
;
_
»
——
‘
On board the large sea—going traw1œ—s this shis a ra1«ity, only
143 having been procüred
in Januaryand February and 1 in August
during the
of 1884,.chieÿ
in the n'Œgh—
_
bourhood of the
such-captures are ina sense aceidenteÿl
since the sh asa
the meshcs
:
…, test ofæhes…anmthgStAnd1WB-VNtmy