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Excerpt from Tarbert, Past and Present: Gleanings in Local History
Argyll, Earl of, keeper of Tarbert Castle, 36; bailie and governor of royal lands in Knapdale, 36; sheriff of Tarbert, 46 at Tarbert 56 at Tarbert Castle 63 receives grant of Kintyre, 54.
Argyll, Duke of, institutes law-suit as to Castle (1762) 79 connected with Argyll Canal Company 145.
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"So far as Lochfyne is concerned, trawling has proved itself since being again legalised to be by far the more remunerative mode of capture, and the takes occasionally secured by this method are enormous. Only last season one crew, after summoning to its aid some half-a-dozen extra boats, sent to market, as the result of one haul, about 350,000 herring, or one each for considerably more than half of the entire population of Glasgow.
"In the prosecution of fishing by this method, the species of boat employed is a smart looking four-oared skiff of about 25 feet keel and 9 feet beam, carrying a jib and lug-sail...." from Chapter IX
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