The fishermen catch the fish, salt them, and carry them or send them away.

While the Irish boats are diminishing in number, those of the strangers are increasing.

In an East Lothian paper, published in May 1881, I find the following paragraph, under the head of Cockenzie:-.
"Departure of Boats .-- In the early part of this week, a number of the boats here have left for the herring-fishery at Kinsale, in Ireland.
The success attending their labours last year at that place and at Howth has induced more of them than usual to proceed thither this year." It may not be generally known that Cockenzie is a little fishing village on the Firth of Forth, in Scotland, where the fishermen have provided themselves, at their own expense, with about fifty decked fishing-boats, each costing, with nets and gear, about 500L.

With these boats they carry on their pursuits on the coast of Scotland, England, and Ireland.

In 1882, they sent about thirty boats to Kinsale[8] and Howth.