MILLIONS OF HERRINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 307, 27 December 1924, Page 7

MILLIONS OF HERRINGS.

WONDERFUL CATCHES AT HOilE. The great British food fish, the herring, seems to be inexhaustible in supply, for it has been captured in myriads for a. thousand years in English waters. On a Saturday last month, at Lowestoft, 240 boats landed 15,000 crans, equal to 15 million herrings, and the next day another 14 millions were landed. Several boats secured £300 for a night's work. The catch at Lowestoft has been double that of last year, and the value more than £112,000 compared with £38,000. Enormous quantities are packed for export to the Continent. At Yarmouth, boats arrived with as many as 300,000 herrings each, and nets were lost owing to the weight of fish carrying them to the bottom. iMore than 50 boats had the high average catch of 150,000 herrings. More than 145 million herrings were landed this season at Yarmouth. During the summer experiments were made with flying-boats off the Scottish north-east coast, with the view of locating shoals of fish, and thus scientifically assisting the trawlermen, who rely on long experience of local signs, supplemented by a 6ort of instinct. But after extensive tests the Fishery Board of Scotland, announced that it was not possible to locate the shoals from fastmoving aircraft. The trawlermen seem to have discovered the fish for themselves, judging by the flgurPs quoted above.