. A treatise on the importance of extending the British fisheries [microform] : containing a description of the Iceland fisheries, and of the Newfoundland fishery and colony : together with remarks and propositions for the better supply of the metropolis and the interior, with cured and fresh fish; elucidating also the necessity of encouraging and supporting commerce and the general industry of the country. Fisheries; Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches; Pêches. % ^ Nh m^. 134 ADDENDA. longer to employ them. Very indifferent salt cod is selling there at five pence per pound. Of white herrings
. A treatise on the importance of extending the British fisheries [microform] : containing a description of the Iceland fisheries, and of the Newfoundland fishery and colony : together with remarks and propositions for the better supply of the metropolis and the interior, with cured and fresh fish; elucidating also the necessity of encouraging and supporting commerce and the general industry of the country. Fisheries; Fisheries; Fisheries; Pêches; Pêches; Pêches. % ^ Nh m^. 134 ADDENDA. longer to employ them. Very indifferent salt cod is selling there at five pence per pound. Of white herrings the inhabitants know but little. When in the market, they have been sold at two pence each*. Your herrings can be afforded two for three halfpence, and the cod at two pence halfpenny per pound, and both are excellent. I cannot, in this early stage of the investigation, say what quantity would carry us through the approaching season; but it is to be expected that the consumption would be very extensive. I have made application for forty tons of cod, which I hope will be forwarded. It would be impertinent in me to urge upon the Committee the import- ance of their own plan; but it may not be im- proper to say, that, in this part of the kingdom, it is received as a measure admirably calculated to ameliorate the condition of the poor, and to augment the national stock. Some exertion on the oart of gentlemen, in their respective locali- ties will, however, be necessary to produce the * Note by Sir Thomas Beraard. " While very indifferent white herrings were selling at Sheffield for two pence a piece, they were to be purchased at Hastings at the rate of sixpence the hundred, and in t»ome parts of Scotland for half that price. The bay salt, duty free, for curing a hundred of herrings, costs about a penny. It should seem therefore that our manufactu- rers might be supplied at the price of a fiirthing, or, at the most a halfpenny, with that quantity of food for which they have
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