370 DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



one of those jDlaces which suffered much from the 

 famine; but in 1864 the fishing interests there were 

 sufficiently strong to make a good show with their 

 complaints before the Royal Commissioners against the 

 fishermen of Riug, a village nearer the entrance to the 

 harbour. The latter were largely engaged in trammel- 

 fishing as well as in trawling, and, it was said, inter- 

 fered with the Dungarvan men, who worked chiefly 

 with lines, by setting the trammels in their way. 



Within the last few years fishing from Dungarvan 

 has practically come to an end ; some of the fishermen 

 have emigrated, others have gone to sea, and some, we 

 fear, have moved to the poor-house ; while tlie Ring 

 men continue to follow their own particular modes of 

 fishing without anyone to complain of them. The Irish 

 Inspectors partly attribute the disappearance of the 

 Dungarvan fishermen to the fact of their having pos- 

 sessed no land to fall back upon in times of scarcity. 

 Other causes, however, must, we think, have had 

 greater influence on the fortunes of Dungarvan ; and 

 we cannot believe that a town which at one time was 

 of some celebrity as a fishing port can have fallen into 

 its present state of decay, so far as its fisheries are con- 

 cerned, mainly because the fishermen attended to nothing 

 but their legitimate occupation. 



Trammel-fishing is worked to some extent by the 

 fishermen at Ring for the capture of hake, which are 

 generally abundant along this coast at certain seasons. 

 The longlines are also used, and fish-bait is obtained 

 for them by trawling, although mussels are to be had 

 in great abundance. 



Scans are used along this south coast for the capture 

 of mackerel and sprats. 



The kind of trawl in use here is the one we have 



