CONFERENCE ON SOTH JULY, 1883. 



EARL of MILLTOWN in the Chair. 



IMPROVED FACILITIES FOR THE 

 CAPTURE, ECONOMIC TRANSMIS- 

 SION AND DISTRIBUTION OF SEA 

 FISHES; AND HOW THESE MAT- 

 TERS AFFECT IRISH FISHERIES. 



IMPROVED facilities for the capture, economic transmis- 

 sion, and distribution of sea fishes, are, perhaps, the most 

 important matters connected with sea fisheries, towards 

 which the attention of the Government and of all persons 

 interested in the food supply of the United Kingdom 

 should be studiously directed. 



It would be impossible, in the treatment of these subjects, 

 to even touch on all of the great Fisheries of the British Isles. 

 I therefore purpose to confine myself to the fisheries of 

 the South and West of Ireland, and for reasons which I 

 shall afterwards make more plain. 



Before I proceed to the exposition of my ideas of the 

 matters I have undertaken to write, I shall give a brief 

 history of the fisheries I have elected to treat of. And, 

 drawing conclusion from the facts that will be contained in 

 it, I shall show that the harbours and fisheries of the South 

 of Ireland have been neglected by the Government ; that 



