3-070-926 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Opening of the National Fisheries Exhibition at Norwich: interior of the Drill-Hall, 1881. 'The articles are divided into six classes, as follows: 1. Pisciculture and shell-fish culture; 2. Models of trawling gear, drifting gear, canvas and ropes, and inland fishing tackle; 3. Life-saving apparatus, lamps, fog-horns and signalling; architectural plans, fish markets, fish-curing establishments, fish-vans, and fishermen's clothing; 4. Pictures illustrating the utilisation of condemned fish and fish refuse as a manure, and the cleansing of sewage polluted streams; 5. Dried, salted, smoked, and tinned fish; shellfish, fish oils, manure, and disinfectants, aquatic flora and fauna, and birds which prey upon fish; 6. Collections sent on loan, which include a large number of cases of preserved fish...Many of these are shown at work, with their nets out, and each exhibits some recent improvement or invention in competing for a special prize of £50...In Class 3 the Board of Trade exhibit a complete collection of life-saving apparatus, and have sent down men to manipulate them. The Duke of Edinburgh contributes models of two life-boats in silver presented to the Duke and Duchess on their marriage by the British residents at St. Petersburg'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.