Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ... Number III. ACCOUNT of the White Fishery on the Coast of Ireland, from Wakefield's Statistical and Political Account of Ireland. At Kinsale, there are 400 boats, called hookers, generally of about 20 tons burden, employed in fishing, which afford an ample supply of fish to the markets of Cork, Kinsale, and Bandon. These vessels are excellent seaboats; they go out in all weathers, and are exceedingly serviceable to ships, in the way of pilotage. Four men form the usual compliment of each crew and their service, both as fishermen and pilots, is deemed of such utility, as to procure them an exemption from impressment. These men seem to be happy only on the water, living chiefly in their boats, while their domestic concerns, and the curing of such fish as are not sold fresh, are consigned to the management of the females. The author of the Survey of Down says, " The Fisheries on that part of the Irish coasts would be extremely valuable, were proper attention paid to them. Boats from Rush go thither, as was formerly the case from Liverpool, to trawl in Dundrum Bay, and carry off great quantities of turbot, sole, plaice, cod, and haddock, whilst the inhabitants of the shore, for want of proper apparatus, get comparatively very few. At Bangor, there is a considerable Fishery of sole and plaice, with a few turbot, and, in winter, of cod and excellent oysters. "The coast of Down abounds also with whiting, gurnard, sea-trouts, mackarel, skate; and about the Copland Islands, and on the northern and eastern coasts, there is found a small red codling, much better tasted than the common cod; but it is not so fit for salting, as it does not take the salt so well."t In the course of my tour along the southern coast of Ireland, I found that the...