OF THE FISHERIES. 



But if the exports of fifh from England " 

 fhall be lefs than thofe from Scotland, 

 her home confumption will be propor- 

 tionably greater, or more fo ; and if, to 

 the before-mentioned fpecies of fifh, 

 we add falmon, haddocks, whitings, ' 1 >oo,oc 

 turbot, and all the varieties of flat and 

 fhell-fifh, the value of the home con- 

 fumption in Great Britain will proba- 

 bly exceed 



To which is to be added the value of 

 oil extracted from white fifh, herrings, 

 feals, grampufes, &c. alfo the fkins of 

 feals, ifmglais, and other marine pro- 

 duce upon our fhores, which at a low 

 calculation will amount to 



Total amount of wealth . 2,000,000 



that may be drawn from the Britifh feas annually, 

 which, befides Supplying the inhabitants in above 

 twenty different kinds of fifh, will bring into the 

 nation, in fpecie and goods, to the value of 750,000!. 

 -We have ftated the number of men, which 

 the Scottifh fifheries carried on by the 

 natives of that kingdom may employ, at 53*200 

 Allowing for England 42,000 



250,000 



And that the carrying trade of fifh from 

 both kingdoms to foreign markets, will 

 employ 4800 



Men and boys in the fifheries of Great 



Britain 100,000 



A nurfery of feamen which no branch of naviga- 

 tion in thefe kingdoms, or in any foreign kingdom, 

 can equal ; befides giving employment to above 

 half a million of people of both fcxes, and of afl 

 ages. Were we to extend our cftimatcs flill further, 



through 



