A View of the British and Irish Fisheries; With Recommendations for the Establishment of an Irish National Fishing Company (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: trade. These departments would be open to the Irish, after the introduction of some English ship. wrights and other tradesmen connected with ship. building for a few years, and if necessary, of masters for the larger vessels; but we should form the body of fishermen, and should build a sufficiency of vessels in our own ports and harbours for carrying on the trade. In process of time towns would arise1, the residence of fishermen and their families, of boat-builders and artificers in constant employment; whose increasing prosperity, and happy life, would give an entire change to the face of affairs along all our coasts., To the English we should yield the -branch of being the merchants in this undertaking, for the supply of themselves, and the greater part of the foreign markets ) for they already possess the shipping, and command of capital; arid, as we observed before, the business of merchant and fish-taker are more likely to succeed when in separate hands. We should at all times, and with great regularity, deliver them full cargoes 'of cured fish, without any delay or disappointment, This branch we are well aware they would execute, although per haps they would not prosecute the Fisheries on 3 scale sufficiently extensive, Experience has shewn that there has been a gree of apathy and indifference upon the subject in England: and, indeed, it more properly belongs' to Ireland. Not only the English will not have chapter{Section 4the inclination to dispute this point of the principal actual occupalion in the Fisheries with, us, but also, we imagine, they could not have it in their power to rival us, if we exerted ourselves to the utmost, either in the constant supply of fish, or in the quantity., ' - When we consider the description of boats the Irish are accustome...