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success. We are not without hope that the deep-sea fishery on the southera cout 
may soon become of some importance, as in 1844 the Fishery Commissiontn n- 
ported that at Dunmore near Waterford, the deep-sea fleet comprised tweire w 
fine cutters, averaging a weekly produce throughout the year of nearly £100. Oi 
the average of three years the returns to one company had exceeded 16 per etoL os 
the capital invested. 
Towards the close of the last century the herring fishery of Ireland was of too- 
aiderable importance, but since that period it has materially declined. Atthatthnf 
the hemngs appear to have come closer to the shores than th^ do at present and 
the loability aiid disincliiiation also perhaps of the fishermen to follow the htrnnp 
to SP4^ naay looked upon as the principal cause of the foilure of the fishery. IV 
supenor qualities of the Irish herring have been frequently notiwd, Ihey are tbni 
mentioned in evidence before commissioners in 1836:—OrB«/yiA»ip». rd'ehertinp 
arc of a large fine species. County Donegal, The Irish herrings are nmeb better 
in quality, and bring higher prices in the Scotch markets than the herrings caught 
many other part* of the evMence similar testimony is gim. 
Ihe hnglish boats from Penzance appear to take advantage of thesummerhfnriug 
tisUery in the Insh Channel. It is slated that about 100 boats from Pamneeare 
at Ardglass, on the north-east coast, every season, and remain about three months, 
I-«rjce quantities of herrings are purchased from the Englishmen engaged in the 
Iiahery, at 4r. a hundred, and arc resold in Liverpool at 6s. to I 2 s. ahundred. Id 
lH4b a fUh factor in Liverpool stated that his soles of Irish herringi, from the list 
OI June to the Ist of October 1835, amounted to £12,23?, and another M fictot 
WM doing a similar amount of business at the same period. 
InesolniDii fisheries of Ireland were, previous to the passing of the present fishery 
aws, n a veiy neglected state, and the Commissioners, in their report on those fisb- 
cnes in 1844, remark, that they never did up to that time, nor do they even now a 
a wnoie, yield more than a Brnall proiwtioiiate part of that value of which they sre 
capable under a proper system. In the report of 1844 no fewer than fifty-sisfoen 
arc enumerated as localities where salmon are taken. 
of fish principal fisheries with the probable present gross prodoce 
Riveus. Produce. 
. about 80,000 salmon. 
... 51 tons, average of 6 years. 
. I tons, average of 4 years. 
Ra ycroy . 24 tons, in 1844. 
Ballinahinch . 23 tons, about. 
Barrow 1 
. about £17,000 or £18,000. 
Nore 
Suir 
The following quantities of salmon were exported by one firm from Cork:— 
. 483,463 lbs. 
•843 . 363,199 ... 
1844 . 303,027 ... 
I u * 18 * 44 ^ Cork are reported to have exported as much as the ahore. 
tIm fli M exported from Waterford, 
other flat fish nf ibil the Irish coast can boast of turbot, sate Md 
of th.^T Lobslen, are ate plentiful on m«.rl»« 
The follnwiitrr A • I y®*^^*’**^**^® capable of great improvement and extetwioo- 
a«a/J extracted from thatUen in 1836 
_ cloiJ ^he dry^B^aL*^ abundant in Dundrum Bay, that they ire sptimi 
^ ^ sold at from U to 1*- 
five to tZntv excellent turbot bank near the Blachets; 
wiih a ^rhots have been caught by the coast-guard ufBw 
8»iIp» are thus «« i * some of them weighing from 20lhs. to 30ll». 
world, arcldS to the Bhek soles, the Seest .n He 
tne Jokers at from lid. to 4d. the pair. 
