HERRING FISHERY. 



on the eaftern fide of fouth Britain, is to be recommended for 

 this purpofe ; a very advantageous place appears to be Wick, in 

 the county of Caithnefs, becaufe it is to the north-eafl, eaft, and 

 fouth-eaft of that coaft, that the Dutch ufed to catch the beft her- 

 rings. We might even eflablifh there a colony of Dutch feamen 

 flailed in the herring fifhery, of \vhich we have now many hund- 

 reds ferving partly on board our mips of war, and partly on board 

 our merchantmen ; but if fuch an edablifhment be made, it muft 

 not be forgotten to procure profefled fim-curers like the Dutch 

 wardens, to put the finishing hand when the bufles return to port ; 

 and thefe fifh-wardens mould be fubjec~Ud by law to the fame re- 

 gulations, as thofe to which the Dutch fifh wardens at Enkhuyfen 

 and Vlardingen are fubjeft. The time for carrying on the fiftiery 

 off the coaft of Caithnefs, is from the 2Oth of June to the end of 

 July, when the herrings are in their highefl feafon. An efta- 

 blimment might likewife be made on the Weflern coafts of Scot< 

 land for the purpofe of catching and curing herrings for the Ger- 

 man market : for inftance, a colony of Dutch fimermen might be 

 fettled in the neighbourhood of Loch Crinan, who, when they had 

 given their fifh the firft curing, according to the Dutch method, 

 might fend them through the Crinan canal (which will foon be 

 fmimed), to be fold to merchants at Greenock ; thefe herrings 

 would then be brought to a fifh-houfe propofed above to be efta- 

 blifhed there, and be rendered by a fifh-curer fit for the German 

 market. The Clyde and Forth canal affords them an eafy method 

 of tranfporting them to Hamburgh. 



N. B. I recommend the employment of Dutch fimermen be- 

 caufe when the Scottim fimermen and curers once fee how much 

 is to be got by the adoption of the Dutch method, they will 

 be the more inclined to embrace it : Thus the Dutch method 

 will be gradually adopted at Oban, Tobermory, Stein, Ullapool, 

 and other fifhing eftablimments. 



Are Swedim or Pomeranian herrings confumed in Germany in 

 targe quantities ; and if not, what reafons impede their intro- 

 duction ? 



Since 



