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The
following account of the fisheries
is
drawn from Dr. Day's report
of
1872 :— tehsildar of Fyzabad reports through the commissioner that there are about 100 fishermen, 42 of whom only have no other Fialieries. occupation, whilst 1;600 are given at Bahraich, and 2,830 at Gonda, all of whom follow other occupations; in the last locality the boatmen and palkee-bearers are included, which augments the total. In the periodical fishings of village tanks many persons not included as fishermen The names of the fishermen castes are given as follows: Gooriyas, join in. "
The
MaUahs, Chakees, Khawicks, Kahars, Coniyas, Gharooks, Jhabjhaliyas. Fish are said to be only sold in the large bazars; some of the Fyzabad markets are fully supplied, others are not, as in Bahraich, where the supply is not equal to the demand, whilst in Gonda contradictory accounts are given.
The
relative prices of fish
and mutton are
as follows
Fyzabad.
Rs. A. P.
10
Fish, large, per ser small, ,, ,,
Mutton, 1st
2nd
9
2
class
19
,,
Gonda.
Baliraicli.
Rs. A. P. 1 3 9 1 6
Es. A. P. 1 3 9
2
16
1
9
—
" Fyzabad. The price of fish is not regulated by the price of mutton, which is mostly consumed by Europeans; some kinds of the former are said Generally about to obtain considerably higher prices than the above. two-thirds of the population are fish-eaters, but occasionally the proportion is
lower. " As regards the increase
or decrease in the
numbers of
fish,
reports
differ materially.
"
In Fyzabad, slight increase is given as compared with the preceding In Bahraich and Gonda generally they are said to have doubled. In some places the increase is reported to be confined to the smaU fish, the number of large fish remaining stationary. In one tehsil in Bahraich a decrease is reported, in another an increase, both said to be due to heavy One tehsildar in Gonda gives an increase owing to floods during rains. the rains, whilst two tehsildars report that from the same cause many fishes have been carried off to the larger rivers." Para. 288, Francis Day's Fresh-water Fish and Fisheries of India and Burmah. year.
Little
need be said on
this topic in additioji to
what
is
stated under
Sitapur and Kheri. Rice and peas form the principal o o e peop e. g^^j^^g^gg ^f consumption, with barley and arhar. The mass of the people eat twice a day, at noon and evening. If food is scarce, they do without the latter meal, and endeavour to escape hunger by falling asleep. Peas are made into bread an ordinary working man will consume one ser of dried peas in the day, but about thirteen chhataks of rice will sufi&ce him; but this by no means expresses the relative nutritive values.
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