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Updated: May 16, 2025
Coming out by the sea-shore, he stood for a while to watch the fishermen dragging in their nets picturesque fellows with swarthy faces and suntanned legs of admirable outline, hauling slowly in files at interminable rope, which boys coiled lazily as it came in; or the oyster-dredgers, poised on the side of their boats over the blue water.
You will find that the shell which crawl on the rocks about high-water mark are different from those which you find at low-tide mark; and those again different from the shells which are brought up by the oyster-dredgers from the sea outside.
Fishermen join in building, rigging, and manning a boat; the proceeds of the fish they catch at sea is divided amongst them so much to the boat, so much to the fishermen. The company of oyster-dredgers of Whitstable "has existed time out of mind," though it was only in 1793 that they were incorporated by Act of Parliament. The tin-miners of Cornwall have also acted on the same principle.
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