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FYZ

432

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

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" 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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