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caught in summer, of about the eighth or ninth class, 

 of which considerable quantities are sometimes exported 

 to the Baltic. 



8. SWEDEN. 



Bohus, Gottenburgh, dc. — Very few herrings are now 

 caught on the Swedish coasts. The Swedes attribute 

 their departure, as already mentioned, to the firing of 

 British and other ships of war attending convoys, &c. 

 Some idea may be formed of the extent of the fishing 

 there from the quantity exported. In the six years from 

 1775 to 1781, they exported annually, on an average, 

 122,217 barrels, while the average annual quantity ex- 

 ported in three years from Scotland was then only 32,629 

 barrels. The fishing of herrings, to any extent, first 

 commenced near Gothenburg in 1752 ; but the fishing 

 almost entirely ceased in 1808, and since then the her- 

 rings are generally caught among the rocky islands, and 

 few or none out at sea ; the quantity that now appears 

 there is inconsiderable. 



Stromstadt. — The fishing extended along the coast from 

 Gothenburg to Stromstadt, a distance of about 105 miles. 

 They were caught in the first years in July and August, 

 but in the later years not till November. The Swedish 

 herrings were generally of good quality, and about the 

 size of the seventh class. 



9. DENMARK. 



Elsinore. — From Elsinore upwards to Falsterbo, her- 

 rings of small size are caught from September till Christ- 

 mas, but not in such quantities as in former times. 



