188 FISHERIES. 



Imported herrings for home confumption are from Scot- 

 land, for foreign uie from Sweden. The former twenty (hil- 

 lings a barreL The latter from fourteen to fixteen (hillings. 

 And their own from fixteen to twenty (hillings. 



Prices of other forts of fiflt. Dry ling from eighteen to 

 twenty (hillings per cwt. Salmon from twelve to thirteen 

 pounds per ton. Hake from fourteen to fixteen (hillings per 

 cwt. Dry cod from fourteen to fixteen (hillings per cwt. 

 Wet cod from fourteen to eighten (hillings per bacrel f. 



A STATE of the FISHING TRADE of IRELAND, 

 for Nine Years, fmce the Commencement of the Bounty, 

 compared with the Nine preceding Years. 



1. s. d. 



Amount of premiums paid to fiiiiing bufles in 



the laft nine years, 47,062 6 5 



Ditto to exported nih, , - 1,265 4 7 



4 7 



Before I quit this article of Irifli fifheries, I (hall obfcrve. 

 that next to the cultivation of land there is no objecl in their 



national 



+ Manafcript Repcrt C:m. emmunicated ly tbc Right Hon. 

 William Eurtsn. 

 * Ibid. 



