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DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



The fisheries we have just mentioned are carried on 

 more or less all along the west coast, in some places 

 more attention being given to one kind than to 

 another. Among the islands near the coast, herring 

 fisliing is perhaps less prosecuted than farther out, and 

 the generally poor fishermen do their best to get a 

 living by line-fishing and lobster catching. 



The taaf-net, previously noticed at the Shetlands, is 

 also used in Skye, and considerable numbers of young 

 coalfish or saithe are taken by it. The hoop is about 

 4 feet in diameter, and the depth about 2| feet ; it is 

 suspended from the end of a long pole, and is worked 

 by hand from the rocks. 



CAMrBELTON TO GREENOCK — NrJlBER OF BOATS. 



Tort Letters. 



Tort. 



C.N. Campbeltou . . 



G.W. Glasgow .. .. 



P.G.W. ! Port Glasgow.. 



G.K. I Greenock 



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This section of the coast includes the numerous fish- 

 ing places in Cantire, Arran, and Bute, with the various 

 lochs in the neighbourhood, the Clyde, and part of the 

 Ayrsliire shore. The fisheries are here of a more varied 

 character than on the more northern part of the west 

 coast, but the herring fishery is the one of most im- 

 portance. At Campbelton we once more meet with 

 beam-trawling, but it is not of the deep-sea kind, and 

 the produce consists principally of fioiinders, W'ith a few 

 soles. It is carried on close to the shore in a few fathoms 

 of water after the herring season has finished, and the 

 boats employed arc half decided smacks about 20 or 25 



