3-070-953 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The National Fisheries Exhibition at Norwich: models of lifeboat, fishing apparatus, etc, 1881. 'Squirt; Porcupine Fish; Angler swallowing Bass...The articles contributed to this exhibition 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..6. Collections sent on loan, which include a large number of cases of preserved fish... In Class 2 are some beautifully-contrived models of fishing-smacks and trawlers, fitted up complete with sails, nets, and gear...The Royal National Life-Boat Institution also exhibits models, in addition to a fully-equipped life-boat mounted on its transporting carriage, models of the three classes of life-boats used on our coasts, a safety fishing-boat, and specimens of life-boats, and various articles of life-boat equipment'.From "Illustrated London News", 1881.