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THE SEAS
.
_
'
workers on land, chief among which are the Scottish sher
girls.
While the shermen are moving round from port
to port following' the appearance of the spawning herring
in? each locality from north.to south in turn, the sher girls
are following the eet on land.
,
In October, Yarmouth, whose streets were thronged a
month before with holiday makers, becomes crowded anew
-
with these Scottish girls.
Here they work all day cleaning
and gutt'mg the herring harvest with razor-sharp' knives
wielded in their dexter0us hands.
Like a ash the cut is
made and the sh ready for preserving, and so they carry
-
on all day, while others are employed in salting, packing,
tending the nets and other multifarious tasks.
The value of herring landed in England alone in the year
1924 was about four and a half million pounds. . The total
value of the herring sheries of all the nations of Northern
and -Westem Europe was nearly ten million pounds, or a
,
little under & quarter of the Value of the whole sea sheries.
Expressed—in weight this” means that out of the two and a—
half million tons of sh landed by these European
over one million tons consists of herrings, which is roughly
,
equivalent to Seven thousand ve hundred million sh !
-
_
,
SEINING
_In quite recent years a new development has taken
place in the British sheries in net shing in off—shore waters.
This is the useof the Danish Plaice Seine. This is a bag—
—
shaped netthirty»feetinlength—, each side Of which stretches '
ont “infro'nt to-form a “ Wing
”
eighty to 100 feet long…
,
The ‘ ‘ foot-rope
”'
is weighted with lead “and the upper
,
rope is buoyed with.cork or glass oats-to keep the mouth
of the net open.
Attached
to the front
end of each
“
wing
”
are
many fathoms of warp.
When shing One
end- of the warp of one Wing is attached to an anchorèd
THE SEAS
.
_
'
workers on land, chief among which are the Scottish sher
girls.
While the shermen are moving round from port
to port following' the appearance of the spawning herring
in? each locality from north.to south in turn, the sher girls
are following the eet on land.
,
In October, Yarmouth, whose streets were thronged a
month before with holiday makers, becomes crowded anew
-
with these Scottish girls.
Here they work all day cleaning
and gutt'mg the herring harvest with razor-sharp' knives
wielded in their dexter0us hands.
Like a ash the cut is
made and the sh ready for preserving, and so they carry
-
on all day, while others are employed in salting, packing,
tending the nets and other multifarious tasks.
The value of herring landed in England alone in the year
1924 was about four and a half million pounds. . The total
value of the herring sheries of all the nations of Northern
and -Westem Europe was nearly ten million pounds, or a
,
little under & quarter of the Value of the whole sea sheries.
Expressed—in weight this” means that out of the two and a—
half million tons of sh landed by these European
over one million tons consists of herrings, which is roughly
,
equivalent to Seven thousand ve hundred million sh !
-
_
,
SEINING
_In quite recent years a new development has taken
place in the British sheries in net shing in off—shore waters.
This is the useof the Danish Plaice Seine. This is a bag—
—
shaped netthirty»feetinlength—, each side Of which stretches '
ont “infro'nt to-form a “ Wing
”
eighty to 100 feet long…
,
The ‘ ‘ foot-rope
”'
is weighted with lead “and the upper
,
rope is buoyed with.cork or glass oats-to keep the mouth
of the net open.
Attached
to the front
end of each
“
wing
”
are
many fathoms of warp.
When shing One
end- of the warp of one Wing is attached to an anchorèd