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DEEP-SEA FISHING. 



what is requisite for their fishing seem to have done 

 them Httle permanent good. 



The boats used on this coast for line-fishing are four- 

 oared yawls. 



The fisheries on the remaining portion of the Irish 

 coast, although of a varied description, are not of great 

 importance. Line-fishing predominates in the north, 

 with a little drifting for herrings; and a few small 

 trawlers work in Loughs S willy and Foyle, and on the 

 adjoining coast. Cod and glassen or coalfish are caught 

 by the lines, and much more might be done with this 

 fishing if the boats employed were more fitted for open- 

 sea work. The class of boats in general use are those 

 we have spoken of as a modification of the Norway 

 yawl. They are very good for ordinary coast work, 

 but are not the most suitable for going a long distance 

 from the land ; for no excellence of design or construc- 

 tion will compensate for the inherent defects of an 

 entirely open boat where the fishermen are liable to 

 bad weather and a heavy sea with but little warning. 

 The result is that the fishing is often put a stop to on 

 the most favourable grounds because the boats cannot 

 venture out. In the following cut we have given a 

 representation of one of these yawls, which we had an 



