332 BRITISH FISHERIES 



contains Holdsworth's article on fishing methods and 

 implements.) 



1870. Report on Coast and Deep-sea Fisheries 

 of Ireland. — " Report on the Coast and Deep-sea 

 Fisheries of Ireland by the Royal Commissioners on 

 Irish Oyster Fisheries." pp. 42. [C. 226.] (Includes 

 an historical summary of the decadence of the Irish sea- 

 fisheries.) 



1878. Report on the Herring Fisheries of 

 Scotland. — " Report on the Herring Fisheries of 

 Scotland, by F. Buckland, Esq., and Spencer Walpole, 

 Esq. (Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries for England and 

 Wales) ; and A. Young, Advocate (Commissioner of 

 Scottish Salmon Fisheries)." pp. lvi + 246. [C. 1979.J 



1879. Sea-Fisheries Commission of 1879.— 



" Report by Frank Buckland, Esq., and Spencer Walpole, 

 Esq., Inspectors of Fisheries for England and Wales, 

 and Commissioners for Sea-Fisheries, on the Sea-Fisheries 

 of England and Wales." pp. xl + 282. [C. 2449.J 

 (Includes appendix by Buckland, giving an account of 

 the natural history of fishes.) 



1881. Outrages committed by Foreign Fisher- 

 men in the North Sea. — " Report by W. H. Higgin, 

 Esq., Q.C., on the Outrages committed by Foreign upon 

 English Fishermen in the North Sea." pp.68. [C. 2878.] 



1883. Sea- Fishing Trade Committee. — " Report 

 of a Committee appointed under a Minute of the Board 

 of Trade to inquire into, and report whether any, and 

 what, legislation is desirable with a view to placing the 

 relations between the masters and crews of fishing vessels 

 on a more satisfactory basis." pp. xlii + 665. [C. 3432.] 

 (Deals, inter alia, with " coopering " in the North Sea.) 



1885. Royal Commission on Trawling. — 



" Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire and 

 report upon the complaints that have been made by line 

 and drift-net fishermen of injuries sustained by them in 

 their calling owing to the use of the trawl-net and beam- 



