... BUCKLE. The weather here has been quieter this week, and sonic small boats have been prosecuting the ripper and haddock fishings. On Monday 7 boats averaged 14 boxes haddocks at 13;- per box. On Tuesday 2 boats had similar catches, and the big boat had ...

... has now left the harbour for the herring fishing. Yesterday one boat landed 8 boxes haddocks at 10,6 per box. Some boxes of ripper codlings have also been landed. ...

... crane, at 8e per oran. Yesterday 6 boats averaged 4 crane, at 8s 3d to 98 3d. A number of small boats have been working the ripper, getting 1 to 2 boxes of codlings. LOSBIZMOUTH. Ten small boats were occasionally at sea last week. The average was about ...

... 16s ; 30 ling, 40s ; 5 owt halibut, 40s per cwt ; roker, 5d ; skate, 10d to is 3d. On Tuesday the landings consisted of some ripper codlings. A number of the haddock boats arrived in the midst of a storm yesterday. 22 boats landed 7 to 15 boxes haddocks ...

... the crew of a small boat which was at the ripper fishing for codling. The ripper is a long bright piece of lead armed with large hooks, which is seized by fish on account of its brightness. One of the rippers was swallowed by a large fish. which, when ...

... white fish at 8d to is 8d each. On Tuesday 20 boats had 3 to 6 boxes at 13s to 163 Gd per cwt. A dozen, boats working the ripper averaged half a box codlings at 8s per box. Yesterday 10 boats had shots of 13s to 26s boxes haddocks at 133 6d to 16s per ...

... sixty-five to forty fathoms, and thirty to forty miles off the land. The fishing equipment was only baited hand lines or the bare ripper (i.e. several clear hooks fixed back to back). On the first voyage the leverage daily catch_ was . oyer fish by twenty men ...

... and a monster halibut, estimated to weigh three-quartere of a hundredweight. The fisherman was alone in a small boat at the ripper fishing near Craigenroan. He had met with no success all morning, when audtlenly his line gave a vicious tug that nearly cut ...

... which sold at 13,6, and four boxes of codlings, which fetched 5/3 per box. Five small boats had an average of 2 boxes of rippers, which realised 5/- a box. Boats are now returning to port from the English fishing, and yesterday about a dozen drifters ...

... Imlah, National Egg Collection. Fruit—A Friend. Green Vegetables—Mrs . Gordon, Mrs Malcolm, Mrs W. Wilson. Jam—Mr. Gordon. Rippers—Anonymous (Stornoway). Magesines—Mrs D. Milain. Meet Roll—A Friend. Mittens—A Friend. Motor Drive—Miss Hutchison (Spey Bay) ...

... THE FISHING INDUSTRY. WiIITEUILLS. —While fishing for cod with a ripper, about a mile a the land, on Friday, a fisherman hooked 22 large herrings full of milt and roe. Herrings so fully developed have never before been found her,. so early in the season ...

... the greatest hindrance to his progress. An Englishman travelling in Banffshire pointed to the barren heathery hills in the ripper part of the country, and with a sneer asked what could a country like that produce. The answer of a sturdy eon of the soil ...