72 FISHES AND FISHERIES OF THE IRISH SEA. 
Liverpool and Manchester have each two representatives, and the following 
boroughs each one :—Barrow, Birkenhead, Blackburn, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, 
Bury, Chester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, St. Helens, Salford, Stockport, 
Wigan, and Southport. 
The following Boards of Conservators of Salmon Districts have each one 
representive :—Kent, Lune, Ribble, Dee, Elwy and Clwyd, Conway, Seiont, 
Dwyfach, Dovey, Ayron, and Teify. 
Finally, 29 members are appointed by the Board of Trade, making 80 of a 
Committee in all. 
The present joint district extends from a line drawn true south-west from Haverige 
Point, in Cumberland, round the sea coasts of Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, 
Carnarvonshire, Anglesey, Merionethshire and Cardiganshire, to a line drawn true north-west 
from Kemmaes Head, in the County of Pembroke—a coast line of 383 nautical miles, or 441 
statute miles : that is, measuring round the larger bays, and some of the estuaries, but not up 
the rivers, nor Barrow Channel, nor the Menai Straits from Beaumaris to Carnarvon. The 
area, including the channels and rivers, out to the three-mile limit, is 1,300 square nautical 
miles, or 1,498 square statute miles. 
Fig 10.—dA Hedge-Baulk. 
2. Tue FISHERMEN AND FISHERIES OF THE DISTRICT. 
The number of fishing boats and fishermen fishing from the ports in the Lancashire and 
Western Sea Fisheries District is as follows :—48 steam trawlers, 98 first-class sailing trawlers, 
532 second-class sailing trawlers, prawn boats, and shrimping boats, 470 third-class boats. The 
number of fishermen who fish from boats is 2,841, and of shore fishermen 746. The shore 
fishermen include cart and push-net shrimpers, shellfish gatherers, stalkke-net fishermen, crab, 
lobster, and shore-net fishermen. The above list does not include boys, girls, and older persons 
employed in shrimp picking, nor any persons employed in connection with the fishing industries 
ashore, of which there is a large number, nor are the trawlers or other. vessels included which 
come from a distance, as for instance, the Brixham trawlers now fishing in Cardigan Bay, 
