216 THE HISTORY OF DUTCH SEA FISHERIES. 



square sails (razeileii). The law of 1801 had ordered every 

 buss to carry forty nets ; the regulation of 1822 added the 

 size of those nets for each voyage. The former statute pro- 

 hibited cure-herring fishermen from salting herring in baskets 

 ungutted (steuren\ unless in urgent cases, when it should 

 be impossible to cure the fish ; the latter made away with 

 the exception, and prescribed all herring caught in a buss 

 to be either cured (kaken) immediately or* thrown over- 

 board. Besides these, and a few more tightenings of the 

 old fetters, the Regulations of 1822 offer one important 

 new feature, viz., the institution of two distinct boards for 

 the cure-herring, and fresh-herring fisheries. The former 

 was to sit at the Hague and exercise exactly the dominion 

 formerly held over the cured-herring business by the 

 Committee for the Grand Fishery. The latter board was 

 to meet at Katwijk, as the most centrally situated among 

 the North Sea coast villages, and hold sway over the smoke- 

 herring concern. As a novelty, the whole of the coast 

 fisheries, including those for pan-herring and fresh fish in 

 both the North Sea and Zuider Zee, and even shrimping, 

 were brought under the supervision of the College as- 

 sembling at Katwijk, who were enjoined to keep their eye 

 upon these several branches of the trade, and from time to 

 time to draw up the necessary regulations regarding them 

 for the Provincial States' approval. Last-money was to be 

 levied by both colleges under similar provisions as made 

 in 1 80 1 for the committee's sole benefit ; and the forms of 

 oath, instructions for steersmen, and hospital-ship captains, 

 &c., &c., ordained in 1801, were renewed in pretty much 

 the same words. 



Another novelty of some importance in the Grand 

 Fishery Regulation of 1822 is, that it first gives a legal 

 definition of the several qualities of Dutch cured-herring, 

 viz.,/?///, maatjes, ijlen, and kuitziek (Jtomziefc). The former 



