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enabled to lay before our readers a view of the herring 

 fishing in 1800, on which year tlie total catch was less 

 than 6000 barrels, or about one-fourth of what was caught 

 in one day during the past season. Of the sixteen curers 

 named in the following list only one survives — Mr Donald 

 Bremner. It is also worthy of notice that not a barrel 

 went foreign, and that upwards of a third of the whole 

 catch went off in the shape of red herrings. What a 

 change is now, when 100,000 barrels are an average catch, 

 when the curers number about 120, when red herrings are 

 almost unknown, when the greater part of our shipments 

 go to the Continent, and when scarcely a barrel is sent 

 to London :" — 



' Report to the Honourable the Trustees for Fisheries, &c., 

 by William Macleay, Curemaster of Herrings at Wick, 

 for the year from 1st April 1800 to 1st April 1801. 



Proprietor's Name. 



To where exported 

 or Coastways. 



No. of 

 Barrels. 



A. Miller, Staxigoe . . 

 G. Tower, of Aberdeen 

 T. Hill, of Berwick . . 

 H. Bain, Wick . . . 

 A. MUler, Do. . . . 

 A. Oag, Do. . . . 

 G. Bain, Do. . . . 

 H. Craig, Do. . . . 

 S. Sutherland, Wick . 

 D. Bremner, Do. 

 A. Bowie, 

 J. Gray. 

 J. Farqiihar, 



F. Quoys, 



G. Wares, 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 



B. Henderson, Clyth 



London, Sunderland, & Dunbar 

 London 



Do. and Berwick .... 



Do. and Leith 



Do. Do 



Leith 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do. and London 



Do 



Do. and London 

 London . . . 



Of which 2038-i barrels made hito red herrings.' 



1454^ 

 736" 

 629 

 447 

 642 

 156 

 76 

 98 

 64 

 177 

 164 

 250 

 152 

 101 

 211 

 367 



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