Herring Fishery

Word HERRING FISHERY
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They are employed in the herring-fishery, and use nets, which are let down in deep water, corks floating the upper edges of the nets, and the lower edges being sunk by leads, so that they remain in the water perpendicularly like walls, and intercept the shoals of herring when they chance to pass. ❋ R. [Illustrator] Richardson (1859)

-- In the early part of this week, a number of the boats here have left for the herring-fishery at Kinsale, in Ireland. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Being in a convent in Artois, his superior sent him to Calais, at the season of the herring-fishery, to beg alms, after the practice of the ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses; ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses; ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

-- Garveloch being a place where there was a large herring-fishery, but where, as we are told by the author, "the people increased much faster than the produce." ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

"Sir -- I wrote a letter, three weeks ago, to Lord Oldborough, on the herring-fishery, to which I have not had the honour of an answer." ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

The nets used in the herring-fishery can furnish work but for few, and not many can be employed as labourers at the foundation of the new bridge. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

[A small sea-vessel used in the Dutch herring-fishery.] and advising about the effects of this encouragement, which will be a very great matter certainly. ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)

V Mr. John Knox was a Bookseller of eminence in the Strand many years, and devoted the fortune he acquired by this busi - ness to the improvement of his country, in the planning of a herring-fishery and the settlement of new towns on the North - east coast of Scotland. ❋ Unknown (1812)

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