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Statistics of foreign mackerel imj)orted into and exported from the United 

 States, and of dried codfish imjJorted into the same. 



THE HEEEING FISHEEY. 

 From its comwx7iccment to the year 1852. 

 We hear of this fishery among the Pilgrims.* In 1641 they rented 



* In the reign of James I, of Scotland, we find mention of the cnstoni or duty on the export- 

 ation of herrings — a proof that the fishery had then attained to importance in Great Britnin, 

 We leara, too, that the English, thinkmg it disgraceful that the Dutch, their rivals in com- 

 merce, should derive so much wealth from the coasts of England, set about prosecuting tho 

 heiTing fisheiy, and in the year 1580 raised the sum of £80,000 by a joint stock company. 



lu 1760, there were employed on the coast of Yarmouth, England, 205 vessels of from thirty 

 to one hundred tons. In 1826, the shore herring fishery of England and Scotland employed 



