This fishery is carried on chiefly by Garriock & Co., Reawick,
who used to have ten or twelve, but last year had only five smacks
engaged in it, with crews of nine hands. The fishing season is
from 1st May to 15th August.* The men are engaged on shares,
and are settled with in the same way as those on board the Faroe
smacks. There is this difference, that the owners do not provide
bread or coals, and the men get seven-twelfths of the earnings.
The men come home every week. A copy of a settlement with the
crew of one of these vessels, produced by Mr. Garriock, shows that
four-fifths of the whole earnings were paid in cash, the rest being
taken in goods.
* <Sea Fisheries Commission Evidence>, 31,851, 31,974.
<Account of Herring and White Fisheries in the Shetland Islands>
by A. Anderson, p. 22 (London 1834. Pp. 32).
[L.F.U. Garriock, 14,468; J. Johnston, 12,236; L.F.U. Garriock,
12,474.]