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able from its being so entirely exceptional. Some of 

 the Morecambe Bay liners prepare the dogfish for 

 market by skinning them, and removing the head and 

 tail. In this condition they are sold, under the name 

 of " Darwen salmon," to the weavers at Blackburn and 

 Preston, the only persons who can be induced to pur- 

 chase them. It is the only case I have ever met with 

 in this country, in which the hated dogfish was not 

 knocked on the head and thrown overboard as soon as 

 caught. 



The Welsh fisheries, so far as they depend on the 

 native population, have very little importance. Trawl- 

 ing is carried on at certain seasons in Carnarvon and 

 Cardigan bays, and on the Tenby ground ; but, as I 

 have mentioned, English boats are, with few excep- 

 tions, the only ones engaged there. Drift fishing for 

 herrings and line fishing are both worked on the west 

 coast of Wales ; but the boats in use are mostly small 

 ones, and the supply of fish from them is barely suffi- 

 cient for local demands. Independently of the general 

 apparent scarcity of fish on this coast, the mining and 

 quarrying industries in the Principality are of such 

 importance, that the working population have little 

 inducement to seek their fortune in the uncertain 

 occupation of a sea fisherman. 



The Milford oyster fishery still employs a good 

 many hands; but, like most other oyster fisheries, 

 there has been a great falling oif in the supply in the 

 last few years. 



Tenby is the only really important fishing station 

 on the Welsh coast ; and, although there are several 



