FISHERIES. 



BARRELS OF HERRINGS IMPORTED INTO IRELAND 

 FOR. EIGHTEEN YEARS. 



Import of herrings in the nine years fince the 



bounty exceed the preceding period in 1. s. d. 



1 55,1 56 barrels. Value at fifteen fhillings 



per barrel, < 116,367 H 3 



Export lefs by 16,357 barrels, at twenty 



{hillings per barrel, 1 6,3 57 15 O 



Lofs alfb on the export and import of dry 



cod, 1,298 cwt. at 145. per cwt. 973 10 o 



Ditto on barrelled cod, 364 17 6 



134,063 13 9 



Hake 9,566 cwt. at fifteen {Killings po? cwt. 7,1 15 i 3 



Salmon i, 1 08 tons, at twelve pounds per ton, 14,200 o o 

 Mackarel, 2,666 barrels at twenty ihillings 



per barrel, 2,666 o O 



Increafed import fince the bounty, 



* 1 58,604 15 



Imported 



* Manufcript report of the fifh committee, 1778, communicated 

 by the Right Hon. William Burton. 



