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ployed in | Amount of annual pro- ‘beginning of the 17th century ; and while it continued 
wee an Ser) Aen ee ree ‘uninterrupted, the fishery off the coasts of England 
rus _Were extensive and lucrative, notwithstanding the 
E Dutch greatly partici inthem. In the year 1760, 
205 vessels were employed on the Yarmouth coast, of 
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employed on the Norfolk coast. In the year 1812, 
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man countries in the south of Europe, was in- 
Of the latter description, are the Newfoundland terrupted, and nearly destroyed, in consequence of the 
fishery, the Greenland and Davis’ Straits fishery, and war ; while the other market, the West Indies, where 
the South Sea Se aa ee they are used as food for the slaves, is supplied more 
most important are the salmon fishery, and the fishery ly from Scotland. Besides, from the increase of 
for herrings, mackarel, pilchards, oysters, turbot, &c. -w and luxury, the home consumption, notwith- 
rey comme eh hy mee standing all the attempts that have been made to ex- 
panes See ae ee ere ta whic tay tend the se ofthis fish, has also diminished . 
abundant, source of considerable mackarel fishery is entirely confined to the sup- Mackarel. 
except the T weed. lad Gda'viver,hvebe kre 41. fctoras ly of the home market. They éré principally cache 
of considerable besides smaller ones. i Bo Gtndiiee ie be Gane 
u ire on the south and west, being seldom 
oA pn = mre The rent found in any abundance to the north of Yarmouth, and 
of the whole is nearly L.16,000. “The expence attend- to the west of the Hampshire coast, being in a great 
boats, &c. amounts to measure neglected for the pilchard fishery, The prin- 
umber of ploy- cipal market for mackarel is London, where, on an ave- 
‘he he chiet pilchasd Saher dong be eee iis 
4 ief pi is coasts - Pilchard, 
Tweed nerly sent up to th market setshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall’ e: ially the last. 
pickled ; but within these 20 years it has been sent up Fow: g Eeeaeny, emeenet, anid St Lp - ing the 
3 flourishing state of this Bihery, having exported’, fe 
THe herring fishery on the coasts of England is not greater quantity than all the other ports of these coun. 
usiv on the coast of ties. But this trade depending for its rosperity on 
coastof Scotland to the entrance of Chan- average of 10 years, from 1747 to 1756, was about 
nel, on the east and south-east side ; armouth is 30,000:hogsheadls from the four rts just mentioned ; 
generally as the centre of it. Herrings are also whereas, in the year 1782, it had fallen to about 12,000 
caught on Soreudaaglarnee n= herder a TRO as ne ee 
wambers, T commerce in herrings is of very an- ment to 30,000 fishermen, besides the seamen em- 
eient date: Madox, in his of the Exchequer, in ing the fish to foreign markets, and 
to deliver 24,000 herrings to the'king; and, in of the, fishery... At one period eS Cornwall pilchards 
Soreige of Edward 111. the h fais of anna were so much in request in the Italian States, that the 
(which had existed for some time’ ) was regula. orders from them for lead, tin, copper, &c. were often. 
