3-074-666 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Our Fishing Industries: prawn-fishing at Hastings, 1883. 'The pools among the rocks outside the east cliff at Hastings abound with the small crustacean which is much in request for the breakfast table of visitors to that pleasant seaside town, and they are nowhere to be found of better quality. The business of catching them with a simple drop-net lowered at the end of a pole, as shown in our Illustration, sufficiently explains itself without any further comment. Strictly speaking, it ought not to be called a "fishery," any more than the catching of lobsters and crabs, for these marine animals, as we have remarked, are not fishes at all. Young prawns taken on our south coast out of season are frequently sold as shrimps'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.