HERRING FISHERY. 



brought laft year to Emden. According to the foregoing efti- 

 mate then, to the four German ports, on the North Sea, Ham- 

 burgh, Altona, Bremen, and Emden, were brought about 

 87,000 barrels of white faked herrings. To determine the quan- 

 tity brought to the German ports on the Baltic, I have no other 

 method than by comparing the number of veflels laden with 

 herrings which pafled the found, with the probable mare of them 

 which went to German ports on the Baltic : now it appears, 

 from the lifts publifhed at Elfineur, that the exaft number of 

 vefTels laden with white falted herrings, which pafled the found 

 in 1799, was 338, of which 287 were Swedifh (from Gothen- 

 burg, Marftrand, Uddewalla, &c.) 43 Norwegian, five from 

 Emden, one from Altona, one from Aalborg, and one from 

 Leith. We mall hardly exceed the truth, if we aflume, that 

 one-third of thefe veflels were bound to German ports on the 

 Baltic, as Lubec r Roftock, Stralfund, Wolgaft, Stettin, Dant- 

 zick, Pellan, Konningfberg, &c. and that each vefTel held, on 

 an average, 400 barrels. According to this computation, the 

 German ports on the Baltic received more than 45,000 barrels, 

 which, added to thofe received by the German ports on the 

 North Sea, eftimated at 87,000, make a total of 130,000; and 

 I have been informed by feveral merchants in Germany, who 

 import herrings, that before the Dutch were prevented by the 

 war from fending out their bufles, the confumption of white 

 falted herrings in Germany was very greatly fuperior to the pre- 

 fent confumption. 



Of the quantity of other merchantable fifti, fuch as falted 

 cod, dried cod, tufk, ling, &c. annually confumed in Germany, 

 in general I am unable to form any particular eOimate ; but it 

 appears from the Hamburgh printed li(ls, that the importation 

 of the preceding kinds of fifh. to that port is very considerable ; 

 and that the country from which they are chiefly brought at pre- 

 fent is Norway. It is probable alfo that Norway will continue 

 tofupply the German market at all times with dried cod, becaufe 

 in the northern part of Norway, where the cod fifhery is carried 



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