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FISHING STATIONS— IRELAND (continued). 



Youghal to Tralee — Decline of the Dungarvan fisheries — Trammel-fishing 

 at King — The hammer-trawl — The otter-trawl — Kinsale mackerel fishery 

 — Idle habits of the Kinsale fishermen — Fishing Comjmny unsuccessful — 

 Transport of mackerel to England — French fishing boats — Attempted 

 establishment of a pilchard fishery — Objections to it by the fishermen — 

 Kinsale hookers — Bantry Bay a good trawling ground — General fisheries 

 imperfectly worked — Dingle Bay very productive of fish — Eoyal Irish 

 Fisheries Company formerly successful — Ilemoval of restrictions on 

 trawling — Line and drift fisheries — " Curraghs," or canvas canoes — Dingle 

 fishermen generally industrious — Limerick to Sligo — Galway fisheries 

 not fully worked — Difficulties caused by the Claddagh fishermen — Good 

 trawling ground — Systematic search for spawn under the direction of the 

 Fisheries Inspectors — Herring fishery — " Claddagh law " — Other fisheries — 

 Galway hookers — Bofin Island — Fishing Company unsuccessful — Boat 

 harbour now being constructed — Oj^ster fishery in Clew Bay — Line-fishing 

 on the outer coast — Donegal Bay — Sprat fishery at Inver — Accidents from 

 whales — Herring fishery only near the shore — Line, trawl, and trammel 

 fisheries — Haddock plentiful off the coast, but scarce in the bay — Fisheries 

 probably capable of extension, but fishermen generally very poor — 

 Londonderry to Drogheda — Fisheries for the most part unimportant 

 — Fishing boats, yawls — Line-fishing at Rush — Ardglass a large station — 

 Summary and analysis of Irish fisheries — Their uncertain prosiDects 



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FISHERY REGULATIONS 397 



APPENDIX 405 



INDEX 417 



