CONTENTS. Xiii 



FISHING STATIONS— SCOTLAND (continued). 



Stornoway — Fisheries at the Plebrides — Herring fislicry in the Minch — 

 Close-time for herrings — Bad effects of — Inquiry into, and consequent 

 legislation — Curing herrings — Branding disregarded — Irish markets — 

 Longhning — Line-fish generally cured dry — Lobster fishery — Trade in 

 periwinkles — Fishing boats — Eeturns of cured fish — Campbelton to 

 Greenock — Inshore beam-trawling — Lochfyne — Disputes between drift 

 and sean (" trawl ") fishermen — Alleged objections to sean-fishing — Pro- 

 hibition of seaning — Inquiry into the subject by two Commissions, 

 resulting in repeal of prohibition — Recent scarcity of herrings in Lochfyne 



— Various suggested explanations of it — Peculiar character of Lochfyne 



— Great depth of water — Situation of the loch favouraljle for the visits of 

 the herring, but the object of those visits not easily explained — Lochfyne 

 fishing boats — Eeturns of cured herrings — Ardrossan to Dumfries 



— Ballantrae banks formerly spawning ground for herrings — Set-nets for 

 cod and turbot — Solway fisheries unimportant — Summary of Scotch 

 fisheries and remarks on the fishermen Page 313 



FISHING STATIONS— ISLE OF MAN. 



Castletown, Douglas, and Ramsey— Herring fishery on the west, south, 

 and east coasts — Large herrings near the Calf — Spawning ground in 

 Douglas Bay — Mackerel fishery — Deep-sea trawling — Longlining, season 

 for — Manx fishing boats — Number of crew — Shares — Industry of the 

 Manxmen 338 



FISHING STATIONS— lEELAND. 



General decline in the number of fishing boats and fishermen — Discrepancy 

 in the returns by different authorities — Small proportion of regular fisher- 

 men — Decline of the fisheries on the west and north coasts — East coast 

 fisheries improving — General emigration from the west — Exposed coast 

 and bad weather, obstacles to fishing there: — Continued distress said to be 

 the result of the famine in 1846 — Little apparent prospect of improve- 

 ment — Loans recommended by the Fishery Inspectors — Questionable 

 advantage of the system — Fishing only a small part of the occupation of 

 many of the fishermen — Unwillingness of the thriving Irish people to 

 help the fishermen — Mr. Whitworth's offer of help — Dublin to Water- 

 ford — Prosperity of the Dublin trawlers — Scarcity of crews — Agree- 

 ments — Trawling grounds in the Irish Sea — Objection to the trawlers 

 by line fishermen — Eestrictious on trawling — Skerries wherry — Dis- 

 appearance and temporary return of haddocks — Fishing yawls — Season 

 for herring fishery — Fish mostly sent to England — Arklow fisheries — 

 Wexford herring cots — Trawling at Waterford — Extraordinary regula- 

 tions — Nymph Bank a productive fishing ground — Native fishermen 

 and strangers — Frequent abundance of pilchards — Hake, sprats . . 344 



