THE FISHING DISASTER

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 244, 15 November 1929, Page 7

THE FISHING DISASTER

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HOUSE OF COMMONS SHOCKED Lord Mayor's Fuiid Proposed.

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LONDOJS, Nov. 13. Tlie news tliat part of the Scottish lierring fleet ivas liiuping hoihe from tlie East Anglian fishing grounds with lives lost, nets destroyed and eraft bafctered caine upon the House of Comnions with dramatie suddenness. The House was in the middle of the usual jestiug and hurly hurly of question time when it was sileneed and awed by 51 r Adamson's revelation oi oue or the worst fishing clisasters fof many years. 5'lr 51iller asked if tlie Government could do soinethiug to help the men replace their gear. 5Ir Adamson said that he was continuing inquiries. He coukl not add anything at the present moment. Mr Alberry expressed the Ho'lise's sympathy wlien he suggested, in vielv of the niagnifcude of the disaster, that the Lord 51ayor of London ought to he approaclied to opeii a fund to relieve the flshermen's distress. "The worst losses ever known in East Anglia," says a- Yarmouth flsli salesman. "51any Scottish hshermen on the way hotne are ruined. _ Nearly every one of 690 Scottish lierring boats lost all their nets, whieh were practieally xuiinsured. Scotsmeii usually work on a system of iline or ten iil a erew, sharing ownership of the nets and gear, the loss ainouiitng to £100 for eacli group. Scotsmen never flsli ou Siiitdays and are hound to go out ou 5Ioiiday. Y"armouth flshermen escaped because tliey fished on Sunday." I'urther loss of life ig reported, a flull trawler los'mg three overboard, of whom the captain was washed back. Tlie others were not seen again. 'The disaster is causing a fish shortage.