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Statistics of foreign mackerel imported into and exported from the United 

 States, and of dried codfish int^orted into the same. 



THE HERRING FISHERY. 

 From its commencement to the ydar 1852. 

 We hear of this fishery among the Pilgrims.* In 1641 they rented 



* In the reign of James I, of Scotland, we fiild mention of the custom or duty on the export- 

 ation of herrings — a proof that the fishery had then attained to importance in Gre?t Britain. 

 We learn, too, that the English, thinking it disgraceful that the Dutch, their rivals ij com- 

 merce, should derive so much wealth from the coasts of England, set about prosecuting the 

 herring fishery, and in the year 1580 raised the sum of £80,000 hy a joint stocjk company. 



In 1760, there were employed on the coast of Yarmouth, England, 305 vessels dffirom thirty 

 to one hundred tons. In 1826, its shore herring fishery of England and Scotland employed 



