TRANSACTIONS OP THE SECTIONS* 
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^ 0 *, has not been spared on the Irish fisheries. Large “ ^ 
Si and after the Union on the tonnage employed in the hsheries, ^ [“‘v ^ 
ared, and on the fish exported. £-27fi,784 were so 
from 1800 to 1630, being £9800 a year on an average. bounties nu^on y 
biW to establish the fisheries on a permanent looting, “ S-rSuce only 
jffl«i.op€n to great fraud, and many of the herring* exported as Irish 
SLdEt character from occupying an Irish barrel gone 
Tl» mfiest record that we have been able to meet with of tho oj 
the fisheries is given by WokeBeUI. who, in 1812, 
fcbtjjll men. The next return is in 1831, when the Fishery Board reportol jhe 
imbffof fishermen tube 36,159. In their numbers had ‘ ’ 
htt by [gad they had decreased to 54.U9. The foUowiog were the number of men 
udbvyB ouployed in each year from 1843 to 1946 : 
1843 ... 
1844 ... 
1845 ... 
1846 ... 
With respect to these returns it is to be remembered tlmt bounties 
iptothc eudof the year 1829, and the decrease exhibited m 1830 is to be attnbuled 
to their ctssatiou. the increase after IS3C proves however that the abolition 
•ptcffl of bounties did not loue interfere with the progress of , 
uhswner ever)’ a-ason to bo ijuite certain tliat the large increase in ‘S’® , 
esnant be borne out, and that a considerable decrease took place m *8** ®* “ ^ , 
'twit in the late lamentable mortality awl au unusually lar^c emigration. *° * 
loxiBg returns of the number of boats engaged in the ushcriea will show how large 
1 ptuportion of the employment must be carried on along the shores: 
Yean. 
Bosti. 
Itt CltUM, 
wttli fixed masts. 
Slid Ctus, 
all uther kinds. 
1821 
2766 
4,889 
1829 
3597 
9.522 
1836 
2897 
7,864 
1843 
1887 
14,048 
1844 
2237 
16,718 
1845 
2371 
17,612 
1846 
2443 
11.793 
"Hie want of small piers and harbours of refuge has been a great impediment to 
“e nnployment of a better class of boats, but these necessary accommodations 
“w been much increased of late, »nd are now likely to receive still further attention 
•wiBeiiuence of recent parliamentary gnuita for such purposes. i •* « v ... 
foe chief occupation of tl« fisUermen at present appears to be the white ti&bei y, 
‘*‘>king8uch fish as cod, Iwi. hake, haddock. &c. The cod caught on the soutn- 
arc said to be prefcrahla to those caught iu the American seas, and as they 
j^ndoo the hanks off the coast, the principal lingtish markets might n-caivc fro 
•'^adaowch better description of fiah and in a uiach better condiUon than that 
flu tiny are now supplied. It has been proved ihol fii»t>sadiug ’ 
with the westerly wind* which &o much preVMl on tlit coaa o ’ 
weather, ca^rv fish from tho Nymph bi-nk off the coasu of 
^'Word to London in tiirct* or four davs, whereas the wclbboeta p*’™. 
the north-ea*t coast of ScotlamI, sometime* reach Gravesend '':“h ditnculty 
• iwsny week*, with the fish so much bruised and injured by the aptotion of the 
**^tp be hanlly fit for sale. A company was formed in aterford m 180., for 
the Nymph. bank fishejy, hot owing to the mismaungement of the di- 
u soon failed, although, when, under the direction of a single “‘d'^>dual, 
^ Wte, previously employed by the Company, fished in that locality with great 
