FISHES AND FISHERIES OF THE IRISH SEA. 



Liverpool and Manchester have each two representatives, and the following 

 boroughs each one : Barrow, Birkenhead, Blackburn, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, 

 Bury, Chester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, St. Helens, Salford, Stockport, 

 Wigan, and Southport. 



The following Boards of Conservators of Salmon Districts have each one 

 representive : Kent, Lune, Ribble, Dee, Elwy and Clwyd, Conway, Seiont, 

 Dwyfach, Dovey, Ayron, and Teify. 

 Finally, 29 members are appointed by the Board of Trade, making 80 of a 



Committee in all. 



The present joint district extends from a line drawn true south-west from Haverigg 

 Point, in Cumberland, round the sea coasts of Lancashire, Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, 

 Carnarvonshire, Anglesey, Merionethshire and Cardiganshire, to a line drawn true north-west 

 from Kemmaes Head, in the County of Pembroke a coast line of 383 nautical miles, or 441 

 statute miles : that is, measuring round the larger bays, and some of the estuaries, but not up 

 the rivers, nor Barrow Channel, nor the Menai Straits from Beaumaris to Carnarvon. The 

 area, including the channels and rivers, out to the three-mile limit, is 1,300 square nautical 

 miles, or 1,498 square statute miles. 



Fiif 10. A Hedge-Baulk. 



2. THE FISHERMEN AND FISHERIES OF THE DISTRICT. 



The number of fishing boats and fishermen fishing from the ports in the Lancashire and 

 Western Sea Fisheries District is as follows : 48 steam trawlers, 98 first-class sailing trawlers, 

 532 second-class sailing trawlers, prawn boats, and shrimping boats, 470 third-class boats. The 

 number of fishermen who fish from boats is 2,841, and of shore fishermen 746. The shore 

 fishermen include cart and push-net shrimpers, shellfish gatherers, stake-net fishermen, crab, 

 lobster, and shore-net fishermen. The above list does not include boys, girls, and older persons 

 employed in shrimp picking, nor any persons employed in connection with the fishing industries 

 ashore, of which there is a large number, nor are the trawlers or other vessels included which 

 come from a distance, as for instance, the Brixham trawlers now fishing in Cardigan Bay. 



