Remarks On the Importance of Our Coast Fisheries As the Means of Increasing the
Remarks On the Importance of Our Coast Fisheries As the Means of Increasing the
Jahleel Brenton
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As to the first of these points, it appeared upon evidence that for a long time past, large fleets of fishermen from Calais, Boulogne, and Dieppe, &c. Had been accustomed to work off the Kent and Sussex coasts, often within half a league of the shore, and occasionally much nearer, and in the bays and shallow waters, in which it is particularly necessary for the preser- vation of the brood of fish, that such as frequent these waters during the breeding season should not be disturbed, nor their y...oung destroyed. It appeared that the French fishing vessels had greatly increased since the peace ; there being at 30 the date of the report 300 sailing out of Bou- logne alone, and that they were more numerous and of a larger tonnage, than those employed by our own countrymen upon that coast, being gene- rally manned with double or treble the men, and furnished with nets and fishing gear superior to those of our own people. In consequence of this superiority on the part of the French, it was averred that the English fishermen coming in constant competition with these rivals, had sustained so great injury and such frequent loss and damage of their nets, &c.
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