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Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast

Fishing regions · Last reviewed 2026-08-27

One of the world's great natural harbours fished as a deep-water shore venue from its quays, with a run of surf beach and estuary east of it that takes an annual autumn codling migration.

Safety: cold water shock can cause serious injury or death. 7 more points apply here.

What each one does, and what reduces it

Being listed here is not permission to fish. What that means

Access, fishing rights, seasons, licences, local bylaws and permitted methods vary and can change. Check current access, permission, local regulations, closures and restrictions before you travel or fish. FishingHQ describes what the ground is and names who holds the answer; it does not hold the answer itself.

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Cork Harbour is a drowned river valley with a narrow mouth and an enormous sheltered basin behind it, and it is fished from the shore in a way very few natural harbours are: from deep-water commercial quays, in a working port, over sand, mud and metalwork, at all states of tide.

THE QUAYS ARE THE FISHERY. Deep water alongside means an angler standing on concrete is fishing ground that elsewhere requires a boat. What that produces is a year-round list rather than a seasonal one: flatfish, whiting and codling in winter; several species of ray from spring through autumn including painted, blonde and thornback; conger and coalfish through the year; dogfish and bull huss; and large mullet shoaling in the harbour, taken on small float-fished fish strips. Peeler crab is named across the harbour as the codling bait. A record blonde ray of over sixteen and a half kilos came from this harbour.

IT IS A WORKING PORT AND THAT IS PART OF THE RECORD. Several of these are commercial quays with their own operators, lighting, traffic and access arrangements, and at least one has been reported closed to anglers. Whether angling is permitted on any particular structure, when and on what terms, is the operator's decision, changes, and is not something FishingHQ states.

OUTSIDE THE MOUTH THE COAST TURNS TO ROCK AND SURF. Headlands and rock marks give bass, pollack, mackerel and wrasse to spinner and float with conger and three-bearded rockling on the bottom; surf beaches give bass, flatfish and dogfish. Mullet over three kilos are common in summer around one of the harbours here on small float-fished fish strips.

AND EAST OF IT IS THE CLEAREST SEASONAL STATEMENT IN THE STATUTORY GUIDE: an annual inshore migration of codling and coalfish onto a named five-kilometre south-east facing beach from October to December, on crab and lugworm, best on a flood with a rolling surf. A seasonal claim of that shape — a species, a direction of movement, a beach and three named months — is rare in angling literature and is the kind of statement a seasonal model can actually use.

THE ESTUARY AT THE EASTERN END adds a spit of steep shingle with a tide window described in full: half flood through high water and two hours into the ebb, with an hour of excellent flounder fishing at slack low water from the point, sea trout and mackerel to a spinner at high water, and conger on night tides.

What fishing here is like

A very large drowned-valley harbour with a narrow mouth, deep commercial quays, extensive sand and mud, and a substantial shore fishery worked from concrete rather than from rock or beach. Outside the mouth, a rock and headland coast with surf beaches between, and at the eastern end a large estuary and a long south-east facing tournament beach. The harbour fishery is year-round and unusually broad because the water alongside the quays is deep; the outside coast is more seasonal and more weather-dependent.

This is the most urban and industrial sea fishing in Ireland, and access to specific structures is an operator's decision rather than a given.

What you can target here

One entry per fish, grouped by how you would be fishing — because the answer is a different one from the rocks and from a boat. Each entry says how strongly the sources support it and how much evidence sits behind it. This is documented quarry, not a forecast, and none of it is a statement that you may fish any particular ground.

What these strengths mean
Established quarry
Fishing sources describe this as a normal local target here, not merely as caught.
Recorded here
At least one credible public account of this species being caught here. That is all it means.
Places, accounts and sources are counted separately
A fish documented once at each of six marks is still documented once at each of six marks. Breadth is reported as a place count and never raises the strength, and sources are deduplicated across places so one publisher covering a whole coast counts as one. A fishery account is a source describing the fishing; a recorded catch is a report of a specific catch. They are counted apart because they are not the same evidence.

How people fish here

5 methods are recorded on the places documented here, counted from the records themselves rather than from what is practised in the country. Each opens a full guide to the technique.

  • Ledgering

    Recorded at 7 places here, over harbour wall, beach section, cove, estuary.

    Fishing a bait on the bottom held by a weight, with no float — the simplest way to fish at distance, in depth, or in wind.

    Documented on the same ground: Atlantic cod, Atlantic mackerel, Ballan wrasse, Blonde ray, Brown trout, Bull huss.

  • Float fishing

    Recorded at 4 places here, over beach section, estuary, harbour wall, rock mark.

    Suspending a bait at a controlled depth beneath a buoyant indicator — the most visual, most controllable and most widely applicable method in angling.

    Documented on the same ground: Atlantic cod, Atlantic mackerel, Ballan wrasse, Brown trout, Conger eel, Dab.

  • Spinning

    Recorded at 3 places here, over beach section, estuary, rock mark.

    Casting an artificial lure and retrieving it so that it moves like something alive — the most direct form of lure fishing.

    Documented on the same ground: Atlantic cod, Atlantic mackerel, Ballan wrasse, Brown trout, Conger eel, European flounder.

  • Kayak fishing

    Recorded at 1 place here, over estuary.

    A platform rather than a technique: quiet, shallow-draught access to water no other craft reaches, bought at the price of exposure, and a discipline where the decision not to launch is part of the skill.

    Documented on the same ground: Atlantic mackerel, Conger eel, European flounder, European sea bass, Thick-lipped grey mullet.

  • Surfcasting

    Recorded at 1 place here, over surf beach.

    Casting heavy baited tackle from a beach into surf — a method defined by distance, by tide, and by reading water that all looks the same.

    Documented on the same ground: Atlantic cod, European flounder, European sea bass, Saithe, Small-eyed ray.

These are the methods documented at the places FishingHQ holds here. A species listed beside a method is documented on the same ground, which is not the same as being taken that way — where a source establishes the method a fish was caught on, it is stated on that place’s own page. All fishing methods.

The fishing year here

The months the records under this area actually name, tightest season first. This is “observed in these months” rather than a season: a species whose months nobody recorded is not listed, because a gap in the evidence is not a year-round fishery.

What dominates

Bottom fishing from deep-water quays and piers for flatfish, whiting, codling, ray, conger, dogfish and bull huss, with peeler crab named as the codling bait across the harbour. Float fishing for mullet in the harbour and around the working quays, on small fish strips, with ground-baiting where needed. Spinning and float fishing from the outside rock for bass, pollack, coalfish, mackerel and wrasse. Surf fishing the beaches for bass, flatfish and the autumn codling and coalfish run. Estuary fishing on a defined tide window for flounder, bass, plaice and sea trout, with conger on night tides. Small-boat fishing round the offshore island at the eastern end.

The water available

A large sheltered drowned-valley harbour with a narrow entrance, deep commercial quays with metalwork on the bottom, extensive sand and mud, and channels. Lit and unlit piers within it, several of them working structures. A rock and headland coast outside the mouth with deep water at the points. Surf beaches of sand and shingle, including a five-kilometre south-east facing tournament beach. A large estuary with a steep shingle spit at its mouth and a strong tidal stream. An offshore island fished from small boats.

How the rules are structured

Sea angling is unlicensed and governed by sizes, bag limits, protected species and area measures. Several ray species carry specific measures, which is directly relevant in a harbour whose ray fishery is one of its features. Bass carries specific national conservation measures. Salmon and sea trout require a state licence, with annual river assessment. Shellfish gathering is governed by classification and biotoxin monitoring, and in a large commercial harbour the classification question is not academic. Beyond fisheries rules, the quays and piers here are owned and operated structures, and whether angling is allowed on any of them — and where and when — is the operator's decision, is frequently varied, and has been reported changing. FishingHQ does not state what any current rule is: establish licensing, sizes, bag limits, closed periods and any protected-area constraint with the statutory bodies before fishing.

Who to ask

  • The harbour authority and the operators of individual quays, piers and slipways, whose decision about angling on their structures is theirs and changes without notice.
  • Inland Fisheries Ireland, for freshwater fisheries, for salmon and sea trout licensing and tagging, and for the sea angling conservation measures it administers.
  • The government department responsible for the marine, and the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, for sea fisheries measures, minimum sizes, bag limits and protected species.
  • The National Parks and Wildlife Service, where a designation constrains access, disturbance or collection.
  • The Food Safety Authority of Ireland and the shellfish classification and biotoxin monitoring programme, before anything filter-feeding is taken.
  • The harbour authority, local authority, club or landowner controlling the specific structure or shore, whose permission is theirs to give and is not stated here.
  • The Irish Coast Guard and the RNLI, for safety guidance on this coast.

Words you will meet

Deepwater quay
A commercial berth where the water alongside is deep enough for shipping. For an angler it means fishing ground normally reached by boat, from concrete, at any state of tide — and it means a working structure with an operator.
Homelyn
A local and widely used name for the spotted ray. Worth knowing here because several species of ray are taken on the same ground and the names in local reports are not the book names.
Slack low water
The short period at the bottom of the tide when the stream has stopped and has not yet turned. Named on this coast as the specific hour that produces flounder from an estuary point.

Conditions and hazards

This is a working commercial port and the hazards are industrial as well as marine: vessel movement, unguarded quay edges over deep water with no beach and no easy exit, mooring lines, machinery and lighting that stops where the fishing starts. Falling from a deepwater quay is a fall into deep cold water beside a vertical wall.

The harbour's bottom carries metalwork in places, and the estuary at the eastern end has a strong tidal stream through a narrow mouth with a steep shingle bank beside it that shelves fast.

Outside the mouth the coast is ordinary Irish south-coast rock: swell, weed, slippery ledges and marks that fish best in a surf. The beaches are fished at night for the autumn run, which is when the water is coldest and the walk back is hardest.

Some of what lives here

Fish recorded here that FishingHQ holds a reviewed photograph of. It is not a complete list of what Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast holds, and it is not a prediction that you will catch any of them — it is a way in to the ones we can show you.

Places within this area

Publicly documented fishing geography. FishingHQ describes what the ground is; it does not say whether you may fish it, and every one of these sends that question to the body that holds the answer. Browse every place in this part of the world.

Who to ask before fishing any of these

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Sea angling in Ireland is not generally licensed, but access rights, landowner permission, harbour and local authority rules, conservation designations and national fisheries measures all apply and all change. Check the current position with Inland Fisheries Ireland, the harbour or local authority and the landowner before going. This water is tidal and transitional, so the freshwater regime may also apply above the tidal limit: FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Irish freshwater angling requires permission from whoever holds the fishing rights, and salmon and sea trout additionally require a state licence and a tagging arrangement. Seasons, permits and conservation measures apply and change. Check with Inland Fisheries Ireland and with the fishery owner or club before going.

FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. Sea angling in Ireland is not generally licensed, but access rights, landowner permission, harbour and local authority rules, conservation designations and national fisheries measures all apply and all change. Check the current position with Inland Fisheries Ireland, the harbour or local authority and the landowner before going.

  • Cork Harbour and Roches Point

    Estuary · Brackish water

    One of the largest natural harbours in the world: a drowned river valley with a narrow deep entrance at Roches Point opening into a wide sheltered basin, with mud and sand flats in the upper reaches and a working commercial port throughout.

    Very sheltered inside the entrance and fully exposed on the seaward side of the point.

    Severe hazards of Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast apply here: cold water shock, moving water and currents.

    Particular to this water: This is an owned and operated structure. Whether angling is allowed on it, when, from where and on what terms is the operator's decision, is frequently seasonal, and changes without notice.

  • Ringaskiddy Deepwater Quay

    Harbour wall · Salt water

    A deepwater commercial quay on the western shore of Cork Harbour, standing over the dredged channel. Sand and mud on the bottom with the industrial hard edge of a working port above it.

    Deep inside Cork Harbour and sheltered from the sea entirely; the weather that matters here is wind.

    Severe hazards of Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast apply here: cold water shock, moving water and currents.

    Particular to this water: A working deepwater port. The practitioner directory itself records that the quay may be closed to anglers, and whether it is remains the port's to say rather than this record's.

  • White Bay

    Cove · Salt water

    A small sand cove on the eastern shore of the entrance to Cork Harbour, with rock at both horns and clean sand in the bay giving onto the deep dredged channel a long way out.

    Partly sheltered inside the harbour entrance, and the fishing is at range rather than in the cove.

    Severe hazards of Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast apply here: cold water shock, moving water and currents.

  • Ballycotton Harbour

    Harbour wall · Salt water

    A small working harbour under the cliffs of Ballycotton, with sand outside the walls, weed and rock in them, and the island and its lighthouse offshore. The walls themselves hold fish and the sand beyond them holds different ones.

    Sheltered by the harbour arms and by the island offshore, on a stretch of coast that is otherwise cliff.

    Severe hazards of Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast apply here: cold water shock, moving water and currents.

    Particular to this water: A working harbour with an RNLI station and a small commercial fleet. What may be done on the walls is the harbour's decision.

  • Guileen

    Rock mark · Salt water

    Rock platforms and a small strand east of Roche's Point on the open coast, with mixed ground of rock, weed and sand and the tide running past the harbour entrance nearby.

    On the open coast outside Cork Harbour and exposed to the south.

    Particular to this ground: cliffs and rock platforms, cold water shock.

    Severe hazards of Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast apply here: moving water and currents.

  • Redbarn Strand

    Surf beach · Salt water

    Five kilometres of south-east facing sand running from Youghal towards Knockadoon, clean and firm, with a shallow gradient and no structure other than the surf itself.

    Open to the south-east, which on this coast means it needs the wind in an unusual quarter to raise the surf it fishes best in.

    Particular to this ground: cold water shock.

    Severe hazards of Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast apply here: moving water and currents.

  • Ferry Point, Youghal

    Beach section · Salt water

    A spit of steep shingle running at right angles to the shore on the eastern side of the Blackwater estuary, creating a narrows between itself and Youghal. Shingle on the face, a slipway at the point, and a fast channel off the end.

    Inside the estuary and sheltered from the sea, though the practitioner directory notes that a strong wind blowing downriver is its own problem here.

    Severe hazards of Cork Harbour and the east Cork coast apply here: cold water shock, moving water and currents.

Safety

Cold water shockCan cause serious injury or death

The water is cold enough to trigger the involuntary gasp and hyperventilation of cold water shock for most of the year, which incapacitates a swimmer in the first minute regardless of how well they swim, and it does not stop being cold in a warm summer week.

What reduces it: Wear a buoyancy aid so the first minute does not have to be survived by swimming. Fish with somebody. Know where you would get out before you need to.

Moving water and currentsCan cause serious injury or death

Narrow sounds, estuary mouths, harbour entrances and channel edges run hard on the tide, and the water moving through them is a whole bay emptying and filling through a gap. Somebody who enters that water is carried, not swum, and shingle and sandbanks shift under the current.

What reduces it: Treat the state of the tide as part of the mark rather than as a timing detail. Do not wade a channel edge. Stay off shifting banks on a making tide.

Boat traffic and being seenCan cause injury needing treatment

Several of the productive marks are working commercial quays in an active port, with vessel movement, mooring operations and traffic on the quay itself, frequently at night.

What reduces it: Fish where the operator permits and stay clear of working berths and mooring lines. Be visible after dark. Move for a vessel rather than expecting it to have seen you.

Slips, trips and fallsCan cause injury needing treatment

Wet rock, weed-covered ledges, boulder shores and steep descents to the water. Falls here produce broken ankles and head injuries, and they happen on the walk rather than in the fishing.

What reduces it: Boots with a stiff sole and real grip, both hands free on a descent, and a route down chosen in daylight if the session runs into darkness.

Precautions that always apply here

  • Wear a buoyancy aid or lifejacket. Cold water incapacitates strong swimmers within a minute, long before swimming ability matters.
  • Check the tide before you go and know your exit route. Being cut off is the commonest way a shore session becomes a rescue.
  • Tell somebody where you are going and when you expect to be back.
  • Carry a charged phone in a waterproof case, or another means of calling for help.

Further safety reading

  • Night fishing safetyThe productive marks here are unlit or partly lit commercial quays with vertical sides over deep water and no beach, in an active port, fished at night for the winter species. Falling from one is a fall into cold deep water beside a wall.

Check the rules before you fish

Fishing laws, bylaws, access rules, seasons, bait restrictions and permitted methods vary by location and can change. Check the current rules from the relevant authority and the water you intend to fish before fishing.

Check with:

  • Current national or regional law for where you are fishing
  • Current local bylaws
  • The relevant fisheries authority
  • The landowner, club or fishery whose water it is
  • Any restrictions specific to the species or the method you intend to use

Where to go next

What swims here

Local knowledge

Sources and evidence

  • Inland Fisheries Ireland: South West Sea Angling Guide — Cork Harbour to Mine Head Inland Fisheries Ireland, 2020 (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: The statutory fisheries body's own sea angling guide to Cork Harbour, east Cork and the coast east to Mine Head, mark by mark, with the species and the state of the tide.Background and mechanism onlyPassage read and verified
  • Sea Angling in Ireland: the shore marks of Cork Sea Angling Ireland (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: A practitioner shore directory's account of the Cork Harbour and east Cork shore marks: the ground, the species, the methods, the tide windows and the character of the fishing, recorded as practitioner consensus rather than as tested fact.Background and mechanism onlyPassage read and verified
  • The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe Macmillan, 1969 (Reference work)Relied on for: Distribution, habitat association and biology of the fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe named as characteristic of this coast.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
Why the 9 connections on this page are here, and the sources

What swims here

Backed by research 6 connections

Supported by peer-reviewed research or fisheries science. The sources are listed and can be checked.

  • Atlantic cod

    A claim that a coast contains the ground and conditions the species is associated with. It is a distributional statement about the world, it rests on the regional reference literature, and it deliberately asserts nothing about access, permission or catch.

    • The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe Macmillan, 1969 (Reference work)Relied on for: Distribution and habitat association of the marine and estuarine fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe, including which coasts and ground types a species occupies.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
    • FishBase: a global information system on fishes Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. — FishBase Consortium (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Recorded distribution, depth range and habitat association for the species named.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • Blonde ray

    A claim that a coast contains the ground and conditions the species is associated with. It is a distributional statement about the world, it rests on the regional reference literature, and it deliberately asserts nothing about access, permission or catch.

    • The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe Macmillan, 1969 (Reference work)Relied on for: Distribution and habitat association of the marine and estuarine fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe, including which coasts and ground types a species occupies.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
    • FishBase: a global information system on fishes Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. — FishBase Consortium (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Recorded distribution, depth range and habitat association for the species named.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • Conger eel

    A claim that a coast contains the ground and conditions the species is associated with. It is a distributional statement about the world, it rests on the regional reference literature, and it deliberately asserts nothing about access, permission or catch.

    • The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe Macmillan, 1969 (Reference work)Relied on for: Distribution and habitat association of the marine and estuarine fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe, including which coasts and ground types a species occupies.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
    • FishBase: a global information system on fishes Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. — FishBase Consortium (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Recorded distribution, depth range and habitat association for the species named.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • European flounder

    A claim that a coast contains the ground and conditions the species is associated with. It is a distributional statement about the world, it rests on the regional reference literature, and it deliberately asserts nothing about access, permission or catch.

    • The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe Macmillan, 1969 (Reference work)Relied on for: Distribution and habitat association of the marine and estuarine fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe, including which coasts and ground types a species occupies.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
    • FishBase: a global information system on fishes Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. — FishBase Consortium (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Recorded distribution, depth range and habitat association for the species named.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • Thick-lipped grey mullet

    A claim that a coast contains the ground and conditions the species is associated with. It is a distributional statement about the world, it rests on the regional reference literature, and it deliberately asserts nothing about access, permission or catch.

    • The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe Macmillan, 1969 (Reference work)Relied on for: Distribution and habitat association of the marine and estuarine fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe, including which coasts and ground types a species occupies.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
    • FishBase: a global information system on fishes Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. — FishBase Consortium (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Recorded distribution, depth range and habitat association for the species named.States this directlyPassage read and verified
  • Thornback ray

    A claim that a coast contains the ground and conditions the species is associated with. It is a distributional statement about the world, it rests on the regional reference literature, and it deliberately asserts nothing about access, permission or catch.

    • The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe Macmillan, 1969 (Reference work)Relied on for: Distribution and habitat association of the marine and estuarine fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe, including which coasts and ground types a species occupies.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
    • FishBase: a global information system on fishes Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. — FishBase Consortium (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Recorded distribution, depth range and habitat association for the species named.States this directlyPassage read and verified

How people fish here

What experienced anglers do 1 connection

Widely and independently recommended by experienced anglers and specialist sources. This is real angling knowledge, not proof: controlled evidence for it is limited, and FishingHQ records it as convention rather than as a demonstrated effect.

  • Sea fishing

    A statement about which branch of angling dominates on a coast. It is consensus about practice rather than a fact about the world, and it is carried at that level.

    • Inland Fisheries Ireland regional sea angling guides Inland Fisheries Ireland, 2013 (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: The Irish statutory fisheries body's own sea angling guides, describing the marks of each coast with the species taken and the state of the tide.Background and mechanism onlyPassage read and verified
    • General angling website restatements of established technique Various (Credible secondary source)Relied on for: Widely restated practice and local fishing character for these coasts, recorded as practitioner consensus rather than as tested fact.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly

Local knowledge

Backed by research 1 connection

Supported by peer-reviewed research or fisheries science. The sources are listed and can be checked.

  • Water temperature and fish activity

    A link from a coast to the physical mechanism that governs its fishing, which is a claim about coastal process or hydrography rather than about angling.

    • ICES Advice on fishing opportunities, catch and effort International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Ecoregion description, stock distribution and the hydrography of the sea areas named, including seasonal inshore movement.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
    • Cefas science, advice and data on marine and freshwater environments Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Government fisheries body)Relied on for: Marine environmental science for north-west European shelf seas, including sediment character, coastal process and inshore monitoring.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly

Safety reading

Official guidance 1 connection

Stated by a fisheries authority, scientific institute or recognised angling body. Authoritative, but summarising rather than demonstrating.

  • Night fishing safety

    A statement that a coast presents a particular hazard, resting on water-safety guidance issued by bodies with responsibility for it rather than on angling practice.

    • RNLI water safety guidance: cold water shock and Float to Live Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Water-safety or diver-training authority)Relied on for: Cold water shock, immersion response, tidal cut-off and water-safety guidance for shore anglers and small-craft users.States this directlyPassage read and verified
    • Rock fishing safety and the declared lifejacket areas of New South Wales NSW Department of Primary Industries and Surf Life Saving NSW (Water-safety or diver-training authority)Relied on for: Rock-platform hazards, the mechanism by which anglers are swept, and the measures that address it.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly

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