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fishermen, who fished on the Norway coast during the 

 winter, came to the Kinsale and Howth fisheries for the 

 month of April or May, and then in July they went to 

 Peterhead, Aberdeen, and other places, as directed by the 

 fish curers. They were retained for this purpose, a subsidy 

 being given them, and they remained there until they had 

 secured a certain amount of fish ; if they did so within the 

 time contracted for they were free to fish on their own 

 account. Afterwards they went to the southern ports, such 

 as Lowestoft and HarAvich. The fishermen on the west 

 coast of Scotland, Campbeltown, and Loch Fyne, were 

 accustomed to fish in the same way, but of late years those 

 fisheries had been failing ; some of the men at Campbel- 

 town owned thirty or forty boats, and they were prepared 

 to try the west coast of Ireland, but who was to induce 

 them to do so ? The fish salesmen w^ould not attend them 

 there until they had proved the fisheries would be success- 

 ful. Therefore there seemed to be a missing link, and the 

 question was who was to promote the general movement of 

 fishing boats attending the west coast of Ireland ? The 

 whole coast w-as peopled with hardy fishermen, who, as 

 Mr. Brady had said, were remarkable for their honesty and 

 hardihood ; he wished he could say as much for their 

 persistent industry ; but these men were very teachable, 

 and if you had Scotch boats along the west coast of Ireland 

 for the present month up to the end of September or the 

 middle of October they would no doubt be glad to take 

 one or two native fishermen as pilots, who would in that 

 way pick up a little technical education, and would be 

 instructed in the art of following fish to a considerable 

 distance from the coast. Last week he was talking with 

 some men of this class off Clew Bray near Achil Point, the 

 furthest on the west coast of Ireland. He found there the 



