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annum for the “ Aldermanic fish,” and the lobsters of which 
the sauce was made. The Dutch cure their herrings on 
board of their fishing luggers, which industry keeps the 
fishermen very busy, the Dutch cured herring are very fine, 
they are pickled with the crown, gut left in them, and are 
much relished. The “busses” remain at the fishing all 
the season, the fish being collected from the fleet by small 
steamers or “ Yagers” as they are called, which bear them 
rapidly to port, and the herrings which first come to hand 
of the year’s fishing, are highly esteemed and command a 
high price, a barrel specially prepared being sent for the use 
of the royal family. In former times a substantial reward 
was always bestowed on the fishers who were earliest in the 
market with their herrings. 
We have not space in which to describe even in the briefest 
possible manner all the foreign fisheries, but by way of 
giving variety to these memoranda, we may here indicate 
the labour which is incidental to one phase of the cod 
fishery of the Lofoten Islands, namely, “the gill net fishery,” 
and we hope that mode of taking cod-fish will be introduced 
by our own fishermen who are so often put to straits for that 
expensive property of their work—daz¢. Gill-net fishing for 
cod is a Norwegian industry of considerable antiquity, it is 
reputed, at any rate, to have been introduced as far back as 
1485, and is now practised extensively along the coasts of 
Norway, but especially at the islands we have named, where 
cod at certain seasons resort, it is said, in literal millions, the 
inward “rush” of the fish being hailed by those interested 
with great delight ; it isalmost needless to say that the time 
of capture is the spawning season of the fish. Gill-net fish- 
ing is carried on from open boats, each with a crew of six or 
eight men, and carrying from sixty to a hundred nets, which, 
however, are not all used at once, the greater part of them 
