724 



A. D. 1782. 



caught, has been annihilated by the operation of the fait laws. Several 

 gentlemen from Yarmouth informed the committee of the houfe of 

 commons that they would willingly revive that fifhery, if it fhould be 

 relieved from the oppreflion of thofe laws. 



In confequencc of the liberal encouragement, given to the fifheries 

 by the parliament of Ireland, [fee above, p. 405] the herring fifhery of 

 that country was now confidcrably advanced. The Irifli, however, ftill 

 continued to import herrings to anfwer the gi^eat demand for the Weft- 

 Indies. The following is a view of the progrefs of their trade in that 

 article. 



Annual average number' of barrels'^ 

 from 1756 to 1/(54 i. e. before > 

 the bounty J 



D^ from I7tj4 to 1773 

 D". from 25'" March 1763 T 

 to 25'" March 1767/ 

 D\ from 25'" March 1779"! 

 to 25"" March 1783 J 

 In the year ending 25" March 1773 

 of which there were for tlie West- \ 

 Indies J 



Exported. 



4,672 



24,273 

 48,48 li 

 35,960 



Such have been the decreafe of the imports, and the increafc of the 

 exports, fmce the commencement of the public encouragement. 



The other articles of fifh exported from Ireland to any amount, in the 

 year ending 25'^* March 1783, were - cod 272 barrels, 



hake 1,367 cwt, 

 and falmon 253 tuns. 



In the year 1780 the herring filhery in Loch Swilly employed 

 130 bounty veflels, which expended 1,708 tuns of fait, wherewith they 

 cured, by computation _ _ _ 51,240 maize*. 



In the fame feafon 71 vefTels from Liverpool and Mann 



purchafed in the fame loch - - 39,000 



for making red herrings, at 10^ per hundred, 



amounting to £^,^25. 

 In 1781 there were 147 bounty veffels in Loch Swilly, 



which expended 1,914 tims of fait, and cured 57,420 



And 117 veifels from Liverpool and Mann bought 49,950 



for which they paid ;^i 2,487 : 10:0. 



The total taken in the two years - 197,610 maize, 



or 98,805,000 herrings, befides what were ufed frelli in the adjacent 

 country. , 



* A maize contain: joo hcrnngs. 5 



