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In English fishing customs, a conder, also called a huer or bulker, was a person who stood on high places near the sea coast in times of
In English fishing customs, a conder, also called a huer or bulker, was a person who stood on high places near the sea coast in times of herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, i ...
-fishing to signal to the fishers which way the shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It ...
of herrings or pilchards passed—their course being more discernible to those who stand on high cliffs, due to the blue colour they cause in the water, than to those aboard vessels. In Cornwall, the huer would shout 'Hevva!, Hevva!' to alert the boats to the location of the pilchard shoals.
The term was also used to refer to the raised location where a conder stood.
References
* *"Conder". ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989. History of fishing {{fishing-stub