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support a considerable number of persons who are engaged as boat builders, net makers, or in 

 other ways for supplying the fisheries ; the boats which are built in the Isle of Man for the 

 herring fishery are probably the finest and best found in the world ; 700 people, at the very 

 lowest estimate, are employed in these industries. While out of a total population of rather 

 more than 53,000, 2,870 men and boys, representing 11,000 people, are engaged in fishing, 

 700 other people, men, women, girls, and boys, representing say a population of 2,000, are 

 employed in industries dependent on fishing; 13,000 people out of a population of 53,000, are 

 thus either directly or indirectly dependent on fishing for their livelihood. The Insular 

 Government have of late years spent large sums of money in improving the harbours o 

 the island. It is at the present moment improving the harbour at Peel, with the special 

 object of improving the fishing industry, at a cost of 24,300 ; and it is constructing a new 

 breakwater at Port St. Mary, at a cost of 15,580. Plans of these harbours are at the 1 

 Exhibition. The Insular Government is also spending considerable sums of money in harbour 

 works at Ramsey, Port Erin, and Douglas. There is no other portion of Europe, and with 

 the exception of Newfoundland, there is probably no other country in the world where so 

 large a proportion of the population is dependent on fishing for their livelihood. Great 

 Britain is usually supposed to have the most important fisheries in the world. In Great 

 Britain probably 100,000 men (say 400,000 people with their families) earn their livelihood 

 by fishing ; and one person out of about every 75 is thus dependent on the fisheries. In the 

 Isle of Man one -person out of every five depends on fishing for his daily bread, and one 

 person out of every four is directly or indirectly dependent on fishing for a livelihood. 



LIST OF EXHIBITS FBOM THE ISLE OF MAN. 



CLASS I. SECTION I. 

 FISHING. 



[SEA FISHING.] 

 DIVISION I. 



Gear of every description, and of all nations used in trawl, heiring, 

 long line, hand line, and every other mode or system of fishing, 

 including all nets, lines, hooks, harpoons, tackle, &c., employed in 

 the same. 



CORRIN BROTHERS, Net Manufacturers, Peel. (1) Two Barked 



and mounted Herring Nets. (2) Two Barked and mounted Mackerel Nets. (3) One White 

 unmounted Herring Net. (4) Two White unmounted Mackerel Nets. (5) Two White 

 unmounted Mackerel Nets. (6) Two White unmounted Mackerel Nets. (7) Three Hanks 

 of Thread. 



GOLDSMITH, HENRY, Eamsey. (1) One "Mudlag" or Buokie } 

 Creel for bait catching. (2) One Sand Eel or Gibbon Grip. (3) One Pair of " Corran Gib- 

 bon" or Sand Eel Sickles. 



JOUGHIN, JOHN, Net Manufacturer, Peel. (1) One Cotton 

 Mackerel Net, mounted and ready for use. (2) One Cotton Mackerel Net, plain in web. (3) 

 One Cotton Herring Net, mounted and ready for use. (4) One Cotton Herring Net, plain 

 (5) Three Cotton Herring Nets, plain. (6) One Pilchard Not. 



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