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ed, for the Weft Indies. The annual 
confumption of the Britifh iflands com- 
puted to be about 250,000 barrels; four 
times greater than our average export to 
them. 
-ISLE OF MAN. 
Three hundred and forty-three boats 
have of late years paid cuftom, but fome 
evade : feven or eight men in a boat; 
and 40 to 50 fithing {macks buy and cure 
and carry the fifh away, as well as great 
quantities in bulk, to a market, chiefly 
to Liverpool. Thefe fimacks carry five 
men each, and rhany others attend to buy. 
The boats are from 12 to 22 tons. Fith- 
ery. begins at Midfummer, and ends in 
October. Export for four years previous 
to 1791, was 7,390 barrels of white or 
pickled herrings to Great Britain, and 
12,272 ‘barrels of red herrings; and 
275525 red herrings to the Mediterranean. 
Bounty 1s. per barrel for home, and for 
export, 2s/ 8d. white, and 1s: od. red. 
Cured with Liverpool falt. Fifhermen 
payed by.fhares. Value of fmacks trom 
rool. to sool., of boats, 80 to roogs. 
This fifhery is now in a declining 
ftate, from unfuccefsful feafons and be- 
caufe of the war, which prevents their 
export to the Streights. 
IRELAND. 
Bounty sos. per ton for 80 tons, and 
4s. per barrel for white herrings packed, 
and 1s. 3d. in bulk. Premiums, 80 
guineas for the firft, 60 guineas for fe- 
cond, 40 for third, and 20 guineas for 
fowrth fuccefsful veflel ; betides other 
encouragements from towns, &c. In 
1793, bounty was received by 42 veffels 
of 2848 tons and 543 men, and on 
16,099 barrels ; fome quantity of fifth 
caught befides. The fxthery is carried 
on along fhore; each veflel has two 
boats, with nets, to fupply her cargo. 
Two feafons, 25th October, for three 
months; and alfo sft of March. In 
178s, when bounty was granted upon 
tonnage only, without any fpecific obli- 
gations as to the curing of fifh, &c. ex- 
port was 35,414 barrels. In i794, only 
1390 barrels. Annual import of Swe- 
dith herrings, 23,693 barrels, paying a 
duty of od. per barrel. 
LIVERPOOL. 
Employed, in 1797, 27 fail of fifhing 
fmacks in the Autumn, and 61 in the 
Winter fifheries, to buy and not to catch 
herrings, chiefly from the. boats on the 
N. W. coaft of Scotland, and in the 
Firth of Forth, Wales, and Ifle of Man. 
- "Thele fmacks are of 50 or 60 tons, worth 
goo ayul Gool. and carry nine men. Ex- 
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View of the Herring Fifpery. 
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port increafed, from 3794, only 7410 
barrels to 27,387 barrels, in 1797, for 
the Welt Indies chiefly, the increafe ow- 
ing to our conquelts of the French Weft 
India iilands. 
SCOTLAND. 
Three buffes employed in the N. W. 
Fifheries for three months, carrying 12 
to 15 men, and three boats, with nets to 
fifth in the locks, to compleat the cargo of 
the bufs, which ts only a floating ftore- 
honfe, cof Sool. with nets and outfit. 
Bounties allowed 205. per ton, and as. 
per barrel, to the amount of 214 barrels 
per ton, and rs. per barrel for the re-, 
mainder. Thefe bufles are chiefly from 
Greenock; but there are fome trom the 
remoteft Highlands, and in the Orkneys. 
The fociety, inftituted a few years fince, 
for promoting the Scotch Fifhery in the 
Highlands, have expended near 40,0091. 
in this objeét, and eftablifhed three or tour 
new fettlements. In 1753, when the 
bounty was firft given, there were only 
eight vefiels, which caught g19 barrels. 
In 1796, an increafe of 292 veflels, of 
14,218 tons, 3,328 men, and 53,875 bar 
rels of berrings. Barrels. 
In 1793—316 veflels produced 67,203 
In 1794-315 - - only 33,485 
In 1795, 39,000 barrels were exported 
to the Welt Indies, and 37,000 barrels to 
Ireland. 
The Fithery in the Firth of Forth was 
very inconfiderable till 1794, fince which 
the buffes flocking here, and boats from 
all the eaftern coaft of Scotland, the catch 
in 1796 was 132,000 barrels by the boat 
fifhery. It appears, that on a medium of 
the laft three years, ending sth of January, 
1798, there were annually cleared out 
from all the parts of Scotland, without the 
tonnage-bounty, 736 veflels or boats, mea- 
furing 23,348 tons, manned with 2,366 
men, laden with 195,149 bufhels of falt, 
and 45,755 barrels, befides a great many 
empty barrels, &c. That of thefe 557 
were either decked or of 15 tons and up. 
wards, and 14.7 carried out nets. One 
hundred and fifty thoufand barrels may be 
computed to be the annual produce of the 
beat fifhery, befide freth fifi fold. En- 
couragements, are the allowance to fifh- 
curers to take falt duty free; a bounty of 
2s. per barrel in the taking of herrings by 
boats not belonging to buffes; and a 
bounty of 2s. 8d. for the export of white 
herrings. Wages on board the bufles: 
matter sol. mate asl. Cooper 451. three 
boatmen 381. ahd three fkunkmen 3ol. 
three new hands 251. anda boy s5 to 19s. 
per month; befide premiums, amounting 
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