722 



A. D. 1782. 



herrings and cod from Scotland, is taken from the official accounts, 

 made up in the cuftom-houfe at Edinburgh by Mr. Boyd, examiner of 

 fait and fifhery accoimts. 



It mufl be obferved that the numbers of barrels taken, here flated, 

 include only thofe taken in the fir ft voyage in each feafon, called the 

 bounty voyage. But, as the bufles often made a fecond, and fometimes 

 even a third, voyage, and as the herrings taken in thofe after voyages 

 are believed to be, one year with another, equal to thofe taken in the 

 bounty voyages, the real quantity of herrings caught and cured by the 

 bufles may be fairly eftimated at double the quantity here ftated. The 

 number of herrings taken by boats, and confumed frefli, or flightly 

 faked, in the country, of which no account is taken, muft alfo be pro- 

 digioufly great ; efpecially v^'hen an extraordinary plenty, and confe- 

 quently low price, encourages the cadgers (higglers) to carry them as 

 far as poffible into the inland parts of the country. 



The precarious nature of the fifhery appears very ftrongly from the 

 great inequality of the exportation from the fame port. Campbelltown, 

 which in the year 1755 exported 24,436 barrels, and has been generally 

 one of the chief ports of Scotland for the exportation of herrings, ex- 

 ported this year only 396 barrels. Stranrawer in the year 1758 export- 

 ed 13,121 barrels, and has in fome years exported none at all. Cod is 

 chiefly exported from Shetland, next to which Campbelltown, and of later 

 years fometimes Stornoway and Aberdeen, have been the chief filhing 

 places for the exportation of cod *. 



The exportation of falmon, which formerly ufed to be a very con- 

 fiderable branch of Scottifli trade, is now almoft entirely annihilated by 

 the demand for the confumption of London : and it is thought that the 

 method of conducing the fifhery in the rivers is annually diminifhing 

 the breed of falmon. 



The following view of the trade of England in herrings and cod,. 



Thtfe comparative remarks are tr.ken from Mr. Boyd's account,, which is too bulky to bo 



inf(.rt-.d tnlire, 



