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all sold off at the end of each year have in the latter years 

 been as follows : 



I have now, as throughout the present work, treated 

 matters relative to Dutch herring fishery with particular 

 care, for the obvious reason that this branch is the one 

 most closely connected with legislation on fisheries, and 

 therefore directly responding to the subject given for the 

 present essay. A few words still remain to be said 

 of the other branches since 1857; some of which, 

 although unconnected with legislation, are still of 

 considerable importance. 



The fate of hook-fishery (for cod, flat-fish, &c.) may 

 be resumed in the simple statement : that it is now 

 carried on in the North Sea exclusively, and is gradually 

 being absorbed in, or superseded by, the herring business, 

 and is chiefly kept going by the capture of fresh fish, not 

 of cod for salting. Bumboat owners of Scheveningen, 

 Katwijk and Noordwijk, are gradually abandoning the 

 hooks, or beugvaart, and occupy the time between herring 

 seasons chiefly by trawling for fresh fish. In the two 

 villages of Egmond and Zandvoort, where herring fishery 

 has become unusual, the trawl is likewise the implement 



