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preserving concern, near Roundstone, where salmon, oysters, lobsters? 

 and other fish are upon an extensive scale preserved for export. This 

 branch of the trade is particularly suited to remote localities where the 

 fish abounds, and the sources of demand or the facilities of conveyance 

 are limited. It must be needless for us to observe, that among the most 

 legitimate means of improving our fisheries should be considered increased 

 means of transport to favourable markets, either by railroads, or upon 

 the cross lines by well appointed carts. 



Mr. Bianconi, the great coach and car proprietor, has, with his usual 

 liberality, signified to us his readiness to make all his conveyances 

 available for the purpose, at the very lowest scale of charge, and we 

 have reason to believe, that owing to that advantage is the better supply 

 to many of our inland towns, as well as the increased export from those 

 places out of which there is steam navigation. It seems now to be 

 pretty well understood, that where there exists a facility of transport, 

 the sale offish in a fresh state is more safe, and generally more profitable, 

 than after it has been cured; but in remote districts under present cir- 

 cumstances this is quite impossible; and when one sees the merely 

 nominal price which the poor hard-working fisherman often procures 

 for the produce of his night's labour, it is hardly to be wondered at that 

 he should often seem to be deserving of censure for indolence and want 

 of exertion. Mr. Campbell informs us that fine haddocks are now offered 

 at Belmullet for Qd. per dozen. The sea coast districts of Ireland are 

 at this moment decidedly the poorest and most depressed places. Vast 

 numbers of the population are inmates of Workhouses; it is well known 

 that the habitations of these persons once deserted, have generally been 

 destroyed ; if they have been of a description suited to the occupation 

 of human beings, there would be much reason to deplore the wholesale 

 demolition which one sees along the coast; such as they were, they 

 afforded a temporary shelter, and it is much to be feared that we cannot 

 hope for better houses. It is obviously the interest of proprietors who 

 wish to render their coast and island property productive, to provide 

 the fishermen with the means of locating in favourable places; but the 

 want of money and the utter prostration of energies, which at present 

 prevail among all classes, will require the application of some stimulus, 

 some direct inducements to exertion, or the masses of fishermen will be 

 forced for the want of common shelter to continue in the Workhouses; 

 or to congregate into the outskirts of towns, where they will become 

 the victims, as well as the cause of disease. 



It may with some truth be said, that a Government department cannot 

 be expected to do more than recommend to parties directly interested 

 the course which they believe to be most likely to be beneficial; such 

 recommendations have been long and frequently given in respect to 

 curing establishments, but nothing of the kind was ever constructed in 

 some of the most favourable localities until after the example given at 

 our stations. We have reason to believe that the formation of small 

 Fishery Villages in advantageous positions would be generally beneficial ; 

 we know that at Valentia, the want of habitations alone prevented a 

 valuable and productive community from having been formed round 

 our station. We submit that the residue, which will be produced on 

 winding up the Curing Stations could not be more judiciously applied 

 than in encouraging the establishment of one or two model fishing 



