HERRING FISHERY. 



German market, the German merchants, after the many bad ipe- 

 cimens of Britifh herrings, may then be Jefs difpofed to make new 

 trials of them. It is faid that the Dutch method, which is cer- 

 tainly unknown in Scotland, as appears from actual experience, 

 an-d is acknowledged by the beft judges in that country, (Mr; 

 Ofborne, Solicitor of the Cuftoms at Edinburgh, in a letter 

 dated 1 8th October, 1 799, ufed the following expreflion : 

 *' the mode of curing herrings in Scotland is in general very ex- 

 ceptionable ;") is known to the Yarmouth fifhermen, though the 

 diftance of Yarmouth from thofe fifhing grounds where the beft 

 fat herrings are taken, and the confequent expence of fitting out 

 BufTes, confines them to the fimery on their own coafts, where the 

 herrings are meagre, and are unfit for the German market, ex- 

 cept as red herrings ; whether it would be proper to fend Yar- 

 mouth fifti curers into Scotland for the feafon, which is about to 

 commence, or whether if the Yarmouth fiih curers fiiould be 

 deemed inefficient it would be neceiTary to take other methods 

 in order to introduce completely the Dutch method, the Com- 

 mittee, after the necefTary information has been given on this 

 fubject, will be bed able to determine. 



