attraction of the London market, is however a 

 necessary effect, which must continue to operate 

 in its natural course. To give it a more bene- 

 ficial operation in that course has been at- 

 tempted, and the attempts will now be stated, with 

 the local impediments which they are intended to 

 remedy. 



The Committee would here in the first place 

 notice the impediment to the supply of fish in the 

 metropolis, arising from the variations of wind and 

 tide, in conveying the fish through the windings 

 of the river. Before the encouragement offered by 

 the Association to the mackarel fisheries, it was 

 the common practice, when a very slack market 

 was expected, to throw all the fish overboard 

 at the mouth of the Thames, a sufficient induce- 

 ment not being afforded for encountering the 

 hazards and expense of conveying it to London. 

 This practice still prevails with regard to other 

 kinds of fish, and even in the mackarel season 

 which has just closed, immense quantities of them 

 were lost, for the reason that the wind being unfa- 

 vourable, many of the fishermen were with their 

 utmost exertions, unable to reach the London mar- 

 ket with their fish when in good condition. Two 

 remedies have been proposed for this evil ; the 

 one is the establishment of a road from Holy 

 Haven, on the Essex side of the river, for the 

 conveyance of the fish by land carriage, and the 

 other lately suggested is the use of boats to tow 



