The file comprises material relating to cockle fishing in the Burry Inlet/Loughor Estury.

A proposal, 1662, to establish a joint stock company for a fishery on the coast of Wales, together with a bill, 1730, concerning a cargo of French wine bound from Dublin to Chester. (Sir Richard Myddelton served as Collector and Surveyor of His Majesty's Customs from 1660 until 1686.)

Correspondents include Humphrey Humphreys, Bishop of Bangor, about drainage of the 'traeths' (salt marshes) near Harlech and the Welsh fishing industry [1682x1698].

The file comprises papers relating to the fishing industry around the Llyn Peninsula in north west Wales.

The series comprises subject files relating to fishing and marine conservation issues.

Papers, 1891-1938, relating to the work and administration of the Western Sea Fisheries and the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries, comprising files of correspondence relating to individual fisheries, 1896-1914; reports of Fishery Officers, annual reports and printed material, 1892-1938; correspondence relating to Committee personnel, 1892-1923; bye-laws and certificates, 1892-1899; Committee papers, 1891-1913; financial papers, 1893-1923; papers of James Travis Jenkins on Fishery Schools, the Sardine Case of 1912, and a bibliography of whaling [20th century].