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were consumed fresb, without being salted, according to 

 the following returns collected by the officers so far as 

 practicable ; but it is not possible to get returns of herrings 

 " consumed fresh" with the accuracy of returns of " cured 

 herrings." 



To complete the tables, we now give the progress of 

 the fishing since 1848 (as to the fishing in' the preceding 

 years, see page 259) ; and as the year 1849 was very re- 

 markable for its productiveness, we give the following 

 particulars of that fishing : — 



