GENERAL REVIEW 



Review of the Markets for Herrings, with f owe Propo~ 

 fats, whereby the Sale may be extended. Eftimates of 

 the Sale of Fijh in general, and the Number of People 

 that may be employed in that Branch, providing Go- 

 vernment jhall afford a liberal Aid. 



H E opening new Markets, and extending old 

 ones, are objects of very ferious national con- 

 cern, and in which the aid of the irate is efTentially 

 necefiary. Refpecting all the varieties of white fifh, 

 fiat fifh, falmon, and thofe of the whale kind, the 

 markets are boundlefs. Great Britain alone, were 

 all fifh taken by foreigners prohibited, would exhauft 

 the cargoes of many hundred vefTels in the white and 

 fiat fifheries. All the rivers in the Ifland cannot 

 fiipply the demands of London in falmon ; which, 

 of late, hath rifen to a price beyond the abilities of 

 the labouring people to purchafe. 



For oil, and other produce of the whale kind, the 

 falc at home is continually encreafing. 



The market for herrings, and that only, requires 

 particular attention. 



From the period when the herrings forfook the 

 Swedifh and German fhores, till the year 1754, or 

 thereabouts, when they returned to the continent, 

 Great Britain had an opportunity of being enriched 

 by the monopoly of the fifhery upon her fhores. We 

 have feen by what means this fifhery was loft to both 

 kingdoms. Their civil and religiou-s commotions, 

 their fchemes of colonization, and their continental 

 'wars, engrofTed the attention of government and in- 

 dividuals 5 while the Dutch fupplied Europe in this 

 great article, almoft without a rival. 



The fcenc is now greatly changed; fince 1754, the 

 herrings have been on the Swedifh coaft in fuch 

 quantities, that nearly 200,000 barrels are fuppofed 

 to be exported annually, at half the price which we 

 can afford to take. Ireland neglected her fifhery 



till 



