2++ FISHERY. 



In Inverbay only of the above, there is a 

 fummer fiihery for herrings, which begins the 

 latter end of July, and ends the beginning of 

 September. All the other places are winter fish- 

 eries, which begin in O&ober, and end early in 

 January, Lifting eight weeks. Every boat cofts 

 1 8 1. to 20 1. and has fix (hares of nets, at 3 1. 

 to 3 1. 3 s. each : the nets all made of hemp, 

 from the Baltic, which coft, drefTed,. 8d. a 

 pound, fit lor fpinning : 33 lb. of it in a (hare 

 of nets : 4 d. a pound paid for fpinning it, or 

 us. a (hare : weaving the nets id. a yard for 

 one flings or 63 meihes deep, 200 yards run- 

 ning meafure, at that depth, in each (hare. 

 Six hands in each boat, a fkipper, and five men. 

 In the common practice, a boat is divided into 

 feven (hares, the boat one ; each net, half a 

 one ; and each man half: in which way they 

 divide the produce, which vibrates between 

 iol. and iool. average 35I. or per week 10s. 

 a man. Thefe boats belong, in general, to 

 the common inhabitants of the country, far- 

 mers, &c. The other way of carrying the fiih- 

 ery on is, that thole who have vellels on the 

 bounty, fit them out at their own expenfe, and 

 pay the flapper il. us. 6d. a month, and the 

 common men 20s. a month ; each a pair of 

 trowfers, at 41s. 6d. feed them with as much po- 

 tatoes, beef, and pork, as they will eat, and 

 plenty of whifkey, which all together, comes 

 to 20s. a month. The repairs of the boat and 

 tackling are large, for all are built of fir, they 

 come to 3I. per annum per boat, and the nets, 

 Mr. Montgomery ufes two feafons, and then 



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