202 HISTORY OF SEA-FISHERIES. 



ford, and from Mizen Head, to Cahore Point on 

 the Wicklow coast in Ireland. The following 

 figures, taken from the report of the commissioners 

 of the Irish fisheries, show the numbers of boats 

 and men employed, and the produce of cured fish 

 in each year from 1821 to 1829 : average numbers 

 of boats employed for 10 years, 10,970 ; average 

 of men, 22,050. Barrels of herrings cured, 19,450 ; 

 cwts. of cod, ling, hake, haddock, &c., 31,690. 



The principal herring fishery off the coast of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk commences in September, 

 and ends in the beginning of December ; mackerel 

 fishing begins 1st May and ends 1st July. No ma- 

 terial changes have occurred in the seasons, but 

 herrings are more numerous of late years on the 

 Yorkshire coast. For both fisheries decked vessels 

 of thirty to sixty tons register are generally used. 



Mackerel are fish of passage which visit every 

 part of our coasts in the spring and early part of 

 summer, and are taken in great abundance. In 

 this country they are used fresh, and great quan- 

 tities are conveyed by rapid land journeys from 

 the coast to London. For the encouragement of 

 the mackerel and other similar fisheries, the car- 

 riages in which the fish are thus conveyed were 



