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the Claddagh men the fishing community of Galway 

 have done much, however, to curtail the work that 

 might have been done in the bay; but the trawlers 

 appear at last to have obtained a footing there, and 

 there can be no doubt that the fisheries might be much 

 improved, if peaceful work could be ensured. The 

 herring fishery is that which brings most general profit, 

 for the time it lasts, but the line fishery for cod, ling, 

 and whiting is of old standing, and the Galway hookers 

 have long been famous among Irish fishing boats. On 

 the coast northwards from Galway, line, drift, and 

 sean fishing are carried on more or less, but the 

 fisheries are very uncertain, and there has been a com- 

 plete scourge of dogfish in Donegal Bay and on parts 

 of the west coast during the last year or two, which 

 has almost ruined the hopes of the fishermen. 



There is little to be said of the north and north-east 

 coasts ; line fishing is perhaps most general, and there 

 is some small trawling in the loughs, but the fisheries 

 are unimportant till we come to those that I have 

 already noticed on the east coast of the island. 



