From foreign fishing fleets in Ireland, 1531 Dermot O’Sullivan, ‘Prince of Bere and Bantry’ hangs English Captain that seized Spanish ship, 1572 Spanish and Basque fleets at Baltimore, 1586, O’Sullivan Bere and O’Driscoll ‘extortionate dealings’ with English fishermen, 1683 Herring fishery between Baltimore and Bantry Bay.

From Dr. Arthur Went, history in 1940s JCHAS.

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/may-3-1769-a-complaint-was-made-in-one-of-the-cork-newspapers-of-fifty-french-vessels-fishing-for-mackerel-on-the-coast-near-bantry-bay-west-cork-without-interruption-from-the-revenue-cruziers/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/query-from-the-privy-council-of-england-1586-concerning-escheatment-of-desmond-lands-and-whether-the-costoms-of-fishing-at-berehaven-bantry-and-baltimore-west-cork-belong-to-her-majesty/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/royal-commission-of-inquiry-into-the-fishing-industry-sitting-in-bantry-april-1836/

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/petition-c-1648-of-john-winspeare-a-shipwright-living-near-bantry-bay-makes-his-living-upon-the-fishing-trade/

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