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Abstract of the Total Quantity of White-Herrings Branded and Exported, in 

 so far as the same have been brought under the cognisance of the Officers of 

 the Fisiicry, from the 1st of June 1809, in the under-mentioned Years, ichen 

 the System hitherto in force for the Encouragement and Improvement of the 

 British Herring Fishery took place, distinguishing each Year, and the 

 Herrings Cured Gutted from those Cured Ungutted : — 



" These tables appear to me to establish : — 

 "1. As to the foreign trade.; — That the foreign trade 

 in white-herrings, which, since the cessation of the West 

 Indian demand in 1839-40, has been almost entirely con- 

 fined, as before stated, to the North of Europe, south of 

 the Baltic, and now almost wholly consists of Crown full 

 branded herrings, has very largely increased since 1833 ; 

 and I may here add, that several of the witnesses whom I 

 examined were sanguine as to the further extension of 

 the trade, and as to the increasing reputation of Scotch 

 branded herrings, and expressed their hope for the aid of 



