An Account

Kau, Sussex, Hampshire, and Dorset.—In the Agricultural Surveys of these counties, little notice is taken of the fisheries ; in the first they are not mentioned. In Sussex, the produce of the ponds in carp, tench, and perch only are noticed, and even these, it would seem, are monopolized by a London fish-dealer. In the rivers of Hampshire the salmon fishery is carried on, but to no at extent. The little town of Hamble, on the shore of the South ampton water, has about twenty sail of well and other boats constantly employed in fishing, and go as far as the Scilly islands and the Land's End for lobsters, crabs, and craw-fish in the season. In the winter they dredge for oysters, and for about a month catch vast quantities of herrings round the Isle of Wight, whose waters also afford employment in the whitings, plaice, prawns, shrimps, lobsters, and crabs, with which they abound. Southampton market is gene rally well supplied with all kinds of fish, and Ports mouth pretty well, but not equally so with the for mer place. The town of Poole m Dorset is deeply engaged in the Newfoundland fishery. Along the sea coast of all these counties, the mackerel-fishery during the season, and the taking of the various kinds of white-fah, especially soles and whitings for the London market, and the supply of the neigh bouring towns, occupy a very considerable portion of the inhabitants of the former place.

Devonshire.

The supply of salmon in the waters of Devon, was formerly so abundant, that here too the farmers, in hiring their servants, found it neces sary to stipulate that they were not to eat salmon more than twice a week ; but the case of late years is widely altered ; the fishery having fallen off so as to be of little or no importance. This is stated to be owing to a wasteful and improvident destruction of the species, by taking the young fish on their re turn seaward towards the end of the year,; no less than a thousand having been taken in one week at Brightley on the river Taw, where, and at Umber leigh, it has been usual for the young salmon fry; or grovellers, to be given to the pigs.

The sea-fishery is conducted with a considerable degree of activity in this county, Sri/thorn alone hay. ing no less than 100 sail of vessels employed in the fisheries. They catch soles, whitings, flounders, garnet, John Dories, and the red mullet in great abundance and of the finest quality, which are sent off to London, Bath, and Bristol, also to Plymouth and Exeter, and the neighbouring towns; and when, in the summer season, the catch is greater than can be disposed of; the fish are well cleaned, salted, and dried in the sun ; thus prepared, they take the name of bualchorn, and are esteemed an excellent relish, much sought after in the navy, and also along the French coast.

Cornwal.

in addition to the different kinds of fish which are taken off the coast of Devon, Cornwall has the advantage of an annual visit of vast shoals of pilchards, equally abundant for the space they cover with the shoals of herrings. The four principal ports from which the pilchard fishery is carried on are Fowey, Falmouth, Pensance, and St. Iv.es. At Pol. perro, which is perhaps the smallest establishment, upwards of forty boats and nearly 200 fishermen are engaged in the hook and line fishery, and the aggre gate value of the fish taken, is supposed to amount to L.5000 annually, most of which is distributed all

over the country to the distance of thirty miles by men and women carriers. The markets of Exeter and Bath, Plymouth, Liskeard, Tavistock, &c. re ceive supplies from hence; and lobsters are deliver ed to the Southampton well-boats for London. The neighbouring poor are supplied almost all the year round with fresh and salted pilchards. Indeed, the multitudes which are taken of those fish are enormous on the coast of Devonshire as well as Cornwall, be tween the months of July and September inclusive, when the whole line of coast presents a scene of bustle and activity. The fish for foreign export and winter consumption are laid up on shore in large stacks or piles, with layers of salt between each row; here they are suffered to lie for twenty or thirty days, during which time a vast discharge of pickle mixed with blood and oil takes place, all of which is carefully caught in pits and preserved for manure, which is eagerly purchased by. the farmer and car ried away in casks. It is said that every pilchard will dress and richly manure one square foot of ground. The fish are then carefully washed with sea water, dried and packed in hogsheads, in which state they are sent abroad. The average value of pilchards taken in one year in Cornwall is supposed to be from L.50,000 to L.60,000.

Somerset.—The salmon and herring-fisheries of Porlock, Minehead, Watchet, and other places on the shores of the Bristol Channel, are stated to have been carried on to a considerable extent, since the duty on salt used for curing fish for home consular.. Lion has been removed; and the increase of the law ter fishery has been the means, not only of furnish ing employ during the winter for the seamen who are engaged in the lime, stone, and calm trade dur ing the summer, but of providing a cheap and whole some food for the labouring class of inhabitants.

The great extent of coast, washed by the sea, and the numerous fine streams and navigable rivers by which it is intersected, give to the principality of Wales the advantages of a fishery little if at all inferior to those in Scotland. In South Wales, Milford Haven, and its tributary streams, the Towy, and its branches, the Laughor, the Teivy, and the Dovy, all navigable, abound with the finest salmon, aewin, trout, samlets, &c. and the same kind of fish are equally plentiful in the twenty-two inferior streams, which fall into the sea on the coasts of the four maritime counties of Glamorgan, Pembroke, and Cardigan. The value of the salmon sent to Bath and Bristol from Monmouth alone, the produce of the Wye, Usk, and Rumney, is said to exceed L.4000 annually, exclusive of what is con. sumed in-the county. The sea affords them annual shoals of herrings, which, with potatoes, is one of the chief articles of sustenance for the poor. They first appear in the bay of Cardigan towards middle of September, just as the harvest is finished. The other sea fish are cod, haddocks, whitings, skate, ray, turbot, plaice, flounders, soles, mullets, gur. nerds, mackerel, dories, shad, &c. Shell-fish of all kinds are most abundant, and in various parts of Milford Haven are inexhaustible beds of oysters of superior excellence. Those of Tenby and other parts of the coast are of enormous size, but of infe rior quality to those taken in Milford Haven.