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November 2yth^ i8g4. 



Robert Lloyd Patterson, Esq., J.P., F.L.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Rev. W. S. Green, M.A , F.R.G.S., H.M. Inspector of Fisheries, 

 gave a Lecture on 



"SEA FISH AND FISHING OFF THE WEST OF 

 IRELAND." 



The President expressed the pleasure it afforded him to preside 

 at a meeting at which their good friend Mr. Green, who had 

 travelled from Dublin to meet them, would lecture. Mr. Green 

 had appeared before Belfast audiences on more occasions than 

 one, and he needed no introduction from him. 



Mr. Grekn then proceeded with his lecture, which he prefaced 

 by throwing on the screen a map of the British Isles, showing 

 the depths of the sea from near the coast down to the profound 

 abysses of the Atlantic. Fishing grounds were only found at 

 moderate depth, these extending to a distance of from ten to 

 twenty miles off the West of Ireland ; but in the North Sea 

 immense fishing areas existed, each having a depth of about 

 fifty fathoms; indeed, these were amongst the finest fishing 

 grounds in the world. While Mr. Balfour was Chief Secretary 

 for Ireland he made an effort with the Royal Dublin Society to 

 start an expedition with the view of developing the Irish 

 fisheries. They had worked for two years from the south of 

 Cork to the north of Donegal and had done some good work. 

 He then proceeded to describe the fishing boats used on the 

 west coast, mentioning that the efforts made in 1847, the year 



