Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Yarmouth bloater n.1

[the town’s main occupation: fishing]

an inhabitant of Yarmouth.

[UK]Swell’s Night Guide 58: I takes my pitch last night on Fleet pave, then meets with Bet Flab, the Yarmouth bloater.
[UK]Dickens David Copperfield (1991) 29: Peggotty said [...] that [...] she was proud to call herself a Yarmouth Bloater.