HERRING FISHERY. 



for ufe ; hence arifes that equality obferved in the Dutch herrings. 

 But in North Britain, when the herrings are taken out of the 

 net, they lie expofed till they have been gradually gutted, failed, 

 and packed ; thofe which are packed firft, therefore, have a much 

 better flavour than thofe which are packed laft ; and hence arifes 

 probably the inequality in the fame barrel (tho* they are after- 

 wards re-packed) which was obferved above. Wherever the 

 boat-fifliery is adopted, and the herrings are cured on more, it 

 might be difficult perhaps to adopt this part of the Dutch method, 

 unlefs curing-houfes were built on the different lochs, as already 

 on loch Torridon, to which the fifhing-boats might, carry their 

 draughts of herrings as loon as they get them ; but as many 

 buffes are fent out every year from Greenock and Campbeltown, 

 no reafon can be affigned why thofe bufies mould not in all ref- 

 peels imitate the Dutch bufles ; and if after the firft curing on 

 board the bufles had been regulated according to the Dutch me- 

 thod, fifli wardens were eftablimed at Greenock and Campbeltown, 

 or other places, to receive all the herrings which arrive, to ar- 

 range them in fifh-houfes on the footing of Enkhuyfen and Vlar- 

 dingen, then to unpack, fort, and re-falt the herrings according 

 to the different markets for which they are intended, Britim- 

 cured herrings might attain the excellence of Dutch herrings. 

 It muft be obferved, however, that not even the Dutch mode of 

 curing will do for the German market, if the herrings themfelves 

 are meagre, whatever may be their fize ; the herrings muft be 

 round and fat, called by the Dutch Volehering, and fuch as they 

 caught in the deep fea after the 24th of June from the Shetland 

 Iflands fouthward. Meagre herrings, caught late in the feafon, 

 the Dutch fent to the Weft-Indies. 



Do you think the fale of Britifh herrings might be promoted in 

 Germany ; to what extent might it be carried ; and what would 

 be the beft means of encouraging it ? 



The fale of Britifh herrings might certainly be promoted in 

 Germany to a very confiderable extent ; but it is impoffible, even 



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