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and fishwives. By doing this they will be supporting a 

 national, as well as an Irish, industry ; they will ensure a 

 greater supply of food for their subjects, and they will 

 help to support, not only the families of Irish fisher- 

 men, but the thousands who do, and the many thousands 

 who could, derive a living from the proper development of 

 Irish fisheries. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. HORNSBY said from the extreme point on the east 

 coast at Ardglas there was a long expanse of coast-line 

 which was not fished from May until the close of the year. 

 Mr. Walsh accounted for it by stating that the Kinsale 

 fisheries were first promoted by a tentative effort to 

 ascertain whether they would be worth pursuing after they 

 had lapsed for some years. Now the west coast was in 

 exactly the same condition. Those who fished at Kinsale 

 were chiefly from Scotland and the Isle of Man, and they 

 returned from there, following the direction of the fish 

 salesmen, to other parts of the coast-line, chiefly to the east 

 coast to prosecute their fisheries there, under the direction 

 and stimulus of the fish-curers, and under the patronage 

 of the fish salesmen. For example, the Scotch east coast 

 fishermen, who fished on the Norway coast during the 

 winter, came to the Kinsale and Howth fisheries for the 

 month of April or May, and then in July they went to 

 Peterhead, Aberdeen, and other places, as directed by the 

 fish-curers. They were retained for this purpose, a subsidy 

 being given them, and they remained there until they had 

 secured a certain amount of fish ; if they did so within the 

 time contracted for they were free to fish on their own 

 account. Afterwards they went to the southern ports, such 



