Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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66
BRITAIN AT WORK.
A CATCH.
exceptional luck. Should, say, the steam
trawler Amelia arrive at Grimsby with a
good catch, next time she leaves port she
is certain to be shadowed by a dozen other
vessels intent upon gaining her secret. 1 his
the Amelia's skipper will do his best to
guard, and will, perhaps, steam away
in a totally different direction to the
region of the North Sea he is actually
bound for. Then, when night comes on,
he will choöse a favourable opportunity
to cover his lights, and by steaming
back on his own tracks endeavour to
shake his pursuers off. If successful his
secret may remain secure for another
trip, but, sooner or later, it is certain to
be discovered, and he will then find
himself in company with twenty other
vessels, all intent, like hungry vultures,
in securing a share of the spoil.
The fleets of trawlers are entirely en-
gaged in supplying the London market,
and for this purpose a regular service
of carriers, whose duty it is to run out
to the fleets and collect the fish caught
by the vessels composing them, has been
organised. In consequence the grounds
over which such fleets can fish are re-
stricted, being governed by the distance
the carrier is capable of steaming in a
given time to catch the Billingsgate
Market. On the other hand the single-
boater, with her ice-lockers well filled,
I goes as far north as Iceland,
and works wherever the depth
of water and the nature of
the bottom permit of suc-
cessful trawling being done.
? The takes of fish on the
' Iceland grounds arc some-
i enormous. The illus-
’ tration on page 68 gives a
good idea of the immense
■> catches made; the fish shown in the
net representing only a fourth of the
total haul, which was so great that
it had to be taken on board in
instalments. This splendid catch of
fish was made by a steamer after towing her
trawl net for four hours only, and consisted
of two hundred trunks of fish weighing in
the aggregate upwards of seven tons.
The lives of the men employed in both
these branches of trawling are ones of
incessant toil, the net being hauled and
lowered at stated intervals, night and day ;
but of the two, fleeting is the least popular,
as the voyages, lasting twice as long as
FERRYING- FISH FROM TRAWLER TO CARRIER :
AN ACCIDENT.