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SER 29, 1833.

BRITISH CIIAIEL FISHERIES.

Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into
the present state of the British Channel Fisheries, and
She Laws affecting the Fishing Trade of England, &e.
From the late period of the session at which your Com-
mittee was appointed, they have been unable to extend
their inquiry beyond the various fisheries in the British
Channel connected with such places on the coast between
Yarmouth in Norfolk, and the Land's End in Cornwall,
as have more immediately pressed upon their attention ;
but from the nature and extent of this inquiry they have
reason to believe that they have obtained much useful in-
formation as regards the principal causes of distress which
at present affect the several Channel fisheries connected
with the English coast, and which they think it import-
ant should be submitted to the earliest consideration of
the House and of his Majesty's Government.
It is with great regret your Committee have to report
that they find this large portion of the British Channel
fisheries and the various interests with which they are
connected, to be generally in a very depressed and declining
state; that they appear to have been gradually sinking
since the peace in 1815, and more rapidly during the last
eight or ten years ; and that the capital employed in these
fisheries does not yield a profitable return ; while the
number of vessels and boats, as well as of men and boys
employed, is much diminished ; and the fishermen and
their. famil:4o,-whaeforeserly-were. maintained by their in-
dustry, and enabled to pay rates and taxes, are now, in a
greater or less degree, dependent upon the poor rates for
support. _ _

Among the causes which, in the opinion of your Com-
mittee, have tended materially to produce this depression,
and which still continue to affect it, they beg leave to elll
the attention of the House to the following, as those which
appear to be immediately susceptible of remedy—namely,
the extensive interference and aggression of the French
fishermen on the coasts of K, nt and Sussex ; the large
quantity of foreign caught fish illegally imported and sold
in the London market ; and the great decrease and compa-
ratively scarcity of fish in the Channel. To these several
points your Committee will address their observations
separately, premising that there are also others of minor
importance, some of which refer only to particular branches
of the fisheries, and upon which they will afterwards
remark.