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View of fbe refpeftive Fijheries, giving the Average 

 Exports at different Periods -, and the Number of 

 Veffels in the White and Herring Fijberies. 

 Annual average of pilchards exported in former 



years, 30,000 barrels; in the laft four years, 



12,500; laft year, only 5500. 



Ditto of red herrings from Yarmouth and its 



neighbourhood, 38,000; ditto, laft fix years, only 



9335- 



Veflels from ditto employed in the Iceland 1 



white fifhery previous to certain fait [ 200 o 

 regulations - 



VefTels employed from Harwich in the ) 



white filhery upon the Dogger and [70 60 

 other banks in the channel, in 1778 J 



Bufles fitted out from the Thames, &c. 

 for the Shetland white herring fifhery, 



when the bounty was 505. per ton, about 

 the year 1760 



Bufles fitted out from the weft coaft of 

 Scotland for the Hebride herring fifh- 



4 o 



294 1 53 



ery in 1776* 



For the Shetland ditto in 1776 o o 



. -- White fifhery - o o 



Hebride white fifhery - - o I 



Such is the declining Mate of the Britifh fifheries, 

 while, to the furprize of many perfons, a writer of 

 confiderable reputation and abilities labours to anni- 

 hilate that mode which government, afcer the expe- 

 rience of ages, difcovered to be beft calculated for 

 the fupport of the ftate, and the increafe of commerce. 



Doctor Smith, fpeaking of the herring-bufs fifh- 

 ery, thus exprefies himfelf ; " It has, 1 am afraid, 



* From Greenoclc, in or before 1776 138 40 



From Port Glafgow in 1776 - 30 1 1 



From Dunbarton in 1776 - 40 



From Saltcoats in 1776 12 5 



From Irwin in 1776 - 50 



From Campbeltown in 1772 94 39 

 From Oban and its neighbourhood, including "1 



thelflcs, in 1776 J H 



