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Summing Up

By now the reader should have found enough information about the fishing industry at Yarmouth. The drifters, trawlers and their work. What enables fishing round Yarmouth to become so thrifty, and how the fish are caught. How they are dealt with when they are caught.

Not much has been said about the sailing of the ships for instance, or the many different works of each ship hand. The nets have been explained in diagrams if not in writing.

Around the villages near Yarmouth many men go out in boats in the early hours of the morning and catch herring and codlings. This has not been mentioned because they all run independently