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salmon, mackerel, or herring, with hooks concealed inter- 

 nally ; and they might even be impregnated with the 

 natural flavour of the fish. 



Mr. CORNISH, in reply, said, as far as his experience 

 went, he did not think legislation was required with respect 

 to a close time for mackerel or pilchards ; they took a close 

 time for themselves and got away where they could not be 

 caught. Further legislation was very desirable for the 

 purpose of regulating the fishing of our own boats in British 

 waters ; and even if what legislation there was were better 

 enforced, it would be of great importance. With regard to 

 catching porpoises, he should not like to tackle one weighing 

 more than 2 cwt. in a small boat. 



Mr. SHAW, M.P., in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Cornish, said he was much interested in the mackerel 

 fishing of the south coast of Ireland ; but he had learnt a 

 great deal he did not know before. Up to the present he 

 always thought that if a mackerel could speak it would 

 talk Irish, but he was now pretty well convinced that it 

 would also speak in Cornish ; and perhaps if it could 

 speak in either language it could give a different account 

 of its sufferings to that which had been given in the Paper. 

 One thing, however, might mitigate one's sympathies in 

 this respect, for mackerel had not the slightest regard for 

 other fish which suited its taste. In the neighbourhood 

 of Cork there was a fleet of five hundred boats engaged in 

 the mackerel fishery. He was sorry to say there were not 

 as many native Irish engaged in it as he could desire, 

 because round that part of the coast the inhabitants were 

 a poor class of men, with very little enterprise, and very 

 few of them were men of business or capital. In another 

 district, too, mackerel fishing had been established, and 

 seemed likely to succeed ; and he should be very much 

 wanting in his duty if he did not refer to the great help 



