Fishing Refs.

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Fishing References</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Isle of Wight Oysters</B></div> <div> Ben Franklin's 1726 notes</div> <bR> <div> <B>LINKS</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/historic/nmfs/figb0005.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/h"><U><B><IMG SRC="2448f5c0.jpg" border=0 width="143" height="92" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/historic/nmfs/fgind1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/h"><U><B><U>US Historic Fisheries</U></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/historic/nmfs/fgind1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/h"><U><B><U>Photo Album</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> Fishing Refs.</div> <div> <B>The Cornish fishing history is directly connected with the packet service, insomuch as the first packet agent,</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id137_daniel_gwin_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel GWIN, Packet Agent (16891698)"><U>Daniel Gwin</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >, </FONT><B> whilst also Collector of the Customs and Postmaster and </B><B>Collector of the Salt Duty, in 1693, </B><B>wrote an essay on the pilchards caught in Cornwall and the amount of salt used in the fishery. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1a3097b0.jpg" border=0 width="777" height="379" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Falmouth Docks,1896 - Landing fish at low tide </div> <div> The visiting <A HREF="id186.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The East Coast Fishery Lowestoft"><U>Lowestoft</U></A> & <A HREF="id185.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The East Coast Fishery Great Yarmouth "><U>Yarmouth</U></A> Fleets landed mackerel at Falmouth Docks for several years, swelling the local population with an influx of fishwives.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Cuttings</B></div> <bR> <div> SM 22/10.<B>1798</B>: Falmouth, October 18, 1798</div> <div> The <I>King George</I> packet arrived on Monday last (15th) with the mail from Lisbon. Before she left Lisbon, a report was in circulation there that one of the French ships of the line, which escaped in the late action* [1-3 Aug.] in Bequieres Bay [Nile], foundered as she was about to enter the port of Malta, and that two frigates which had escaped in the severe action, had been captured by the <I>Colossus </I>of 74 guns.</div> <div> The beneficial effects of Lord Nelson's victory [ * Battle of the Nile, in which he took eight 74-gun ships and 700 men. (reported in SM Special of Wed. 3 October 1798, <U>two months</U> after the action] are in some degree already seen here [Falmouth], in the large quantity of<B> fish shipping out of here for the Mediterranean.</B> [Refers to exports of cured pilchards]</div> <bR> <div> FP 19/1/<B>1839</B>: [See Ref to Mounts Bay Breakwater, designed by the celebrated engineer Mr. Tierney Clark, from Penzance Point. Idea supported by the <B>Truro, Redruth & Penzance Railway</B> and the <B>Mounts Bay Breakwater Company</B>.].</div> <bR> <div> <B>Slater's 1852-3</B> " The trade of Falmouth has greatly decreased since the removal from it of the Packet Station for the West Indies.  <B>Some extensive OYSTER beds have recently been discovered in the harbour - which promises a considerable source of advantage to the town</B>".</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  </div> <div> FP 24/7/<B>1858</B>: Falmouth.</div> <div> <B>Pilchards</B> sold at Falmouth Market @ <B>1s - 1s 6d. per 120 </B> [six score]</div> <bR> <div> FP 20/2/<B>1897</B>:     The oyster industry.</div> <div> Although the sale of oysters has been hindered lately by some adverse reports, it is a great and growing industry, and the scare about typhoid will soon pass off.</div> <bR> <div> FP 5/6/1897:     Gerrans & Portscatho          Injuring Oyster Beds.</div> <div> Tregony Police Court. 4 boys (Leonard Lower, John Nicholls, Bertie Alderman and Bertie Raspison,) of seven or eight, were charged with injuring <B>oyster beds at Portcuil </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >[Percuil]</FONT>, Gerrans, the property of George Wright Hill and James Hill, oyster merchants. [CHECK if same family as Tregassick Farm] to the value of £4. They had about half a million oysters laid in the neighbourhood, and from time to time some were destroyed and trodden on.</div> <div> Defendants were seen on the oyster bed with a small wheelbarrow, but it was not shewn that oysters were taken away.</div> <div> For the defense, evidence was called to show there was not sufficient distinction between the beach and the oysters.</div> <div> The magistrates came to the conclusion that wilfulness and malice had not been proved, and dismissed the case, which they regarded as a paltry one.  However, they cautioned their parents to keep their children from trespassing on the beds.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1d742000.jpg" border=0 width="578" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Circa 1900: Oysters being bagged and shipped to the east coast, on <B>Froe's beach, Portcuil </B>[Percuil] </div> <div> (From a photograph by J. H. Brown, courtesy of Brenda Pye, St. Mawes)</div> </td> </tr></table></body>