Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-04
TRAWL FISHERMEN
Of OLD ENGLAND.
,,ju,try as Now Carried on is
Only the Growth of the Last
Fifteen Years
PORTSMOUTH A GREAT STATION
polI steamers Go to Sea for Weeks
Aud Weeks at
Time.

Special correspondence
w,,,peton, oct, 81 The recent at
.,.t nv Russians ON fleet OF trawl
o-a..r,sp ON the North sea has result
I~, attracting much attention to a
,l,ss Of producers Of which our own
, ,, knows but little. The rawl
aldermen of England furnish quite half
~, ,bo total produc, OF the nations
c.bsr.ss and they do their work in ex-
,enslycIy constructed steam uawlers
ma, patrol me seas day In and day
oni wear IN and year out, from Hun to
v,,w1y These fishermen are an eN-
..a.rgly sturdy class Of people, who
nj, tbeIr trade In all winds and wealth
,.s and are looked upon as part OF me
h,etLone of the tight little Island '
,T. nave with us a certain class of ilsh-
,o,sr following the sea from Glouces-
r." lIatteras They are the fisher
men who supply the Boston, New YORK
baltimore. Philadelphia washington
md Norfolk markets with blue ilsh,
,o5 sea- trout rock bass ana Hound
.r. But their equipment and their
,r4vls are in no wise TO be compared
T., to steam travis Of England.
some of the vessels that buffet the
,,sgas nm the North sea through weeks
~ wIrtsr storms are not equipped with
,tfrefratng plants But the big gOn-
,srrs Interested IN supplying the Brit
,sb leles with fresh FISH look. after these
smaller raWlers, take up their catch
and Immediately put them In their re-
nIgeators ON board these trdWlers.
cruising everywhere in the North sea
sra huge reirigeratIng ships powerful
s1ouph 10 cross the Atlantic In the
teeth OF the hercest gale, and capable
N carrying enormous tonnage OF fish
IN their cold storage compartments,
into these refrIgeratlng plants the
small traWler dumps his catch, rec
naming at sea month after month, or
as long as the fish run, settling up ut
lhe seasons end
But the trawling industry as now car
rIed ON Is only the growth OF the last
Is years. Before that time the fisher
men went 20 sea IN "a sailing vessel, the
use Of steam having been confined 10
the ocean going tugs and the great
steamships plying between American
PORTS the Atlantic, The Pacific and 9TH
tr world harborT, In 1852 the English
rawler an ready for service cost but
5000 and not more than "a thousand Of
them could be found IN English waters.
but suddenly the English railroads
agoke 10 the fact that there would be
an immense profit for them I'm a refill
geratmg car service that would give
London and an the big inland cities
plenty Of fresh fish every day With
the advent Of the refrlgerating car the
English TRAVELLING industry sprang into
great favor. In 1895 the total product
OF the North Sea fleet was valued at
100000 and shipbuilders all over
England were busy In the construction
Of larger trawlers and as demands have
grown larger larger vessels are being
constructed TO systematically handle
The Increasing output, Most OF the
irawlng is now done In the southern
half Of the North sea but the Oldest
TRAVELLING grounds are along the Devon
shire coast, where the men Brixham
worked at the net more than a hundred
years ago. Portsmouth is n monster
TRAVELLING station, the number of her
inVleT having quaduplcd within the
last % years The men Of this town,
however are content 10 90 TO sea every
morning and return with their catch
each night But from Hull fleets of
steam trfTlew put out into the North
sea TO be gone Tor weeks. Fifty years ago
there were not more than a dozen small
TawIers operating from HUI They
lIospered, however, ana the possibili-
yes or this Industry becoming known
lunlreds Of people are now engaged I'm
.ne IaWlng business, Hun heading the
.st ar English trawling stations. And
u was INTO the midst of this fleet that
lle Russians. frightened by the fOrmid-
haOe character Of the vessels hurled
ileir deadly projectiles which gives
promise Of bringing about strained re-
lauons with England unless ample rep
tIauon Is speedily made by the ear
ana AFFECT apology rendered. In this
junction Il may be said that the
LnsUsh lraWler looks no more like a
.oTpeqo boattor which heRussians now
@y lhey took the HUI fleet than
COW looks like a camel.
lhe beam traWl, which ls used both
W. england and in our own Atlantic
g,aIers, is triangular. nat purse
SH"peu net with It's wide mouth kent
o.Pen oy horizontal wooden spar called
l.e oeam These nets are Of prodigous
slle ana are worked by powerful tackle
sIl steam engine They are lowered
, ,, lhe water to a proper depth where
s s,sS remain Tor rours while the vessels
nv, n ahead az full speed. Into the
r,. ,ne ish are swept by thousands.
q, ne weight OF the struggling prisoners
- pnoImous. but the net holds and af-
We net Is full it Is hoisted into the
,o.l OF lhe vessel where the catch ls
spalo'eu. being thrown into the refrlg- |
So 49, Nnen the vessel Is loaded IL
e.,.I, 20 hun or Portsmouth. 10 Liy-
Cs,.Lo' VI nam'gate, from whence the |
7, ,'O" j. distributed Oh over England
u estimated that there are 50O yes.
c AZ, oI lne lraWler class systematlcallv
"',b the North sea. These vessels |
~ suuei lhe supreme command Of one |
c y, ,ne BEST known fishermen who is
r1 l'.vI !. an admiral, and II was the adj. |
ra,,aa y, 'le HUI fleet who made appll- !
o p.,Tn 70 The British admiralty for rem. |
s.ans. i'oul the ltus-