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vators, and through them, the uncultured fishmf 

 population, with accurate practical information and 

 sound practical instruction ; survey and ascertain 

 the best fishing grounds in each locality, and the 

 best modes of fishing them ; provide in the pro- 

 vinces and on the sea coasts facihties for the arti- 

 ficial production of fish, and by those means, aided 

 by suitable enactments or bye-laws, fill the rivers 

 and lakes with fish ; then start your companies — 

 pay the crews by shares and not by wages — three- 

 sevenths of the capture will be a fair apportion- 

 ment — this will remunerate the crews, prevent com- 

 bination, and stimulate and ensure unwearied exer- 

 tion. Start in the first place, if you please, a model 

 company ; if it should only equal in capture that of 

 the immense Cornish fishing fleet which annually 

 visits Howth Harbour — fishing within sight of Dub- 

 lin, it will divide 30 per cent, upon its capital, and we 

 may then safely indulge the hope that fishing fleets 

 and fishing companies will start up, and sturdy crews 

 be seen engaged in useful and profitable employment 

 all round the coasts of Ireland. 



I think it is a mistake to suppose that this scene 

 of Irish industry, if thus brought out, would at all 

 interfere with the Mediterranean trade carried on 

 so extensively from the Scotch fisheries — that appre- 

 hension does not appear to be well-founded ; fish is 

 now everywhere largely consumed in a fresh state, 

 and is not exported, being scattered a few hours 

 after being caught, over the whole country, by rail- 



