Their only dependence is upon a trade to the Weft - Indies, the fifhery, or the fur-trade •, the laft of which is very inconfiderable; the fifft has been long ago inefficient to maintain fuch a number of people, and is reduced to little or nothing by the great increafe of the people, the addition of more northern colonies, and by the fouthern engaging in it: and the fifhery is the ftaple of New-England, and fource of all their remittances to England, in which Nova-Scotia muft now interfere. ❋ Unknown (1770)
The fifhery, however, does not take place for certain every year; for this depends upon the condition in which the beds are found. ❋ Unknown (1812)
This fmall fry I take to be the top of their fifhery. ❋ Unknown (1812)
About 100 vefTels are employed in theGreepland fifhery, and 140 m the cod fifhery near the Dogger bank, and near the coaft of Holland. ❋ Unknown (1797)
The number of veflcls employed in the herring fifhery» in particular, is reduced from upward of ❋ Unknown (1797)
Lordfhips fituated upon the fea-coaft poflef9 alfo various rights of anchorage, falvage, fifhery, aifd the like. ❋ Unknown (1795)
Separalis pifcaria, and there, he who had the fifhery was owner of the foil, and therefore it is a good Vol. IL # S 3 plea ❋ Unknown (1795)
And, by ex - cluding the citizens of the United States from their accuftomed participation in the gainful bufinels of Ihip-building, freights, and fifhery. ❋ Unknown (1794)
An additional incitement was at the fame time given to the whale-fifhery, partly by the naturali - zation of fkilful foreigners, but more by pecuniary ❋ Unknown (1794)
The terms in which this article was written, appeared to him, to give to France a grant of the whole fifhery. ❋ Unknown (1792)
During the few days which I pafled at Gotheborg, in my fccond excurfion to Swe - den, I obtained the following information concerning the herring fifhery, which forms a very important part of the trade carried on at Gotheborg, and has been the occaHon of confiderably incrcafing the population of ❋ Unknown (1791)
It appeared in the examination of thofe witneffes who fupported this petition, that the fifhery from Britain to Newfoundland, employed about. four hundred Ihips, amounting to three hundred and - fixty thoufand tons, and two thoufand Ihallops of twenty thoufand, navigated by twenty thoufand feamen. ❋ Unknown (1785)
To this intent a bill was*brought into Parliament, the purport of which was, to reftrain the commerce of the four Provinces of New England to Great Britain, Ireland, * and the Englifti iflands inr the Weft Indies, and to prohibit them from carrying on the fifhery at Newfoundland. ❋ Unknown (1785)
That part of the coaft of Newfoundland where the French were to enjoy an exclufive fifhery, could not in reafojv be deemed lefs productive than that. we retained. ❋ Unknown (1785)
At the mouth of the River Penobfcot there is an excellent mackarel fifhery; and, during the wintci leafon, large quantities of cod-fifh are caught, which are dried in the froft. ❋ Unknown (1783)
They amount in the whole» to 30,436/. 10 x gd. fo that the nett produce of the fifhery amounted only to ❋ Unknown (1779)
Individuals who ftill carry it on, will foon give it up; and it is even probable, that, in imitation of the PInglith, they would have done fo already, if like them they had been able to make themfelves amends by the ilationary fifhery. ❋ Unknown (1779)
Even m the moft fav* ourable harbours, the people are not always fure of sn - fuccefiful fifhery. ❋ Unknown (1779)
They had here a great herring - fifhery, which has decayed very much of late years; and they cure her - rings here, as they do at Yarmouth in Norfolk, though I cannot fay they cure them fo well, nor are they fo fit for keeping and fending on long voyages. ❋ Unknown (1778)
They h? ve of late had fome intercourfe vith the Leeward l/lands, and have been pretty fuc - irefsful in the whale fifhery. ❋ Unknown (1778)
