INDEX. 605 



Dogger Bank, the, an important fishing-ground, 256 



" Dominium Maris" disputes between the Dutch and England relative to 

 the right of fishing in the open sea, 460-475 ; similar disputes between 

 the Dutch and Denmark, 475-482 



Dover, character of the fishery carried on there, 256 



Drift-net fishing, dispute between "drifters" and "seiners," 198; between 

 "drafters" and "trawlers," 199; mode of using the drift-net, 231; 

 protected by Fisheries Act of 1868, 236, 246 ; sketch of legislation for 

 protection of drift-net fishing, 279, 280 



Dunbar, increased depth of water registered in harbour, 10 ; proposed pro- 

 vision of necessary funds by means of Government loan, 10, 



Dunbar, Victoria Harbour, 51 



Duncansby, Bore of, how caused, 64 



Dutch Arctic Company, chartered in 1612, in consequence of a collision 

 between Dutch and British whalers off Spitzbergen, 399 ; monopoly of 

 fishing for whales granted for three years, 400 ; whalers registered to sail 

 under convoy and to pay "last money," 400 ; grant of sole right to fish 

 in the vicinity of any islands discovered by Company, 400 ; similar privi- 

 lege conceded on conditions to Dunkirkers who had discovered an island, 

 401 ; attempt of Company to discover N.E. passage to China, 401 ; 

 measures taken for protection of vessels engaged in the fishery, 401 ; 

 prosperity of the Company, 402 ; charter prolonged for a further period 

 of four years, 402 ; secession of the Zealand Chamber from the Company, 

 and their establishment as a separate corporation, 403 ; renewal of 

 charter for a further period of twelve years, 403 ; Zorgdrager's account 

 of the prosperity of the Company, 404, 405 ; Act against infringements 

 of the Company's monopoly, 405 ; rival company formed in Friesland, 

 406 ; prolongation of the Arctic Company's charter, 407 ; Prisons allowed 

 to prosecute the fishery without molestation from Arctic Company, 407 ; 

 admitted ts> a share in the monopoly, 407 ; decline in the prosperity of 

 the Company, 408 ; its dissolution, 409 



Dutch Sea Fisheries, their antiquity, 304 ; salt used as a means of preserving 

 fish from the earliest times, 306 ; discovery by Beukelsz of a method by 

 which fish may be preserved for a long period, 306 ; short description of 

 the method as applied to herrings, 307 ; manufacture of the first large 

 herring-net at Hoorn, 309 ; evidences of the early prosecution of the cod 

 fishery, 309 ; imposition by the sovereigns of the House of Burgundy of 

 a tax for convoying (" last money"), 310; export of herrings prohibited, 

 310; evidences of the importance of the herring fishery as early as the 

 fifteenth century, 310 ; establishment by the Emperor Charles V. of the 

 system of branding herring barrels, 311 ; regulations as to the kind of 

 salt to be used in preserving herring, 311, 312; as to the mode of 

 packing herrings in barrels, 312, 313 ; smoked herring, 313 ; reluctance 

 of fishermen to pay the tax for conveying, 314; practice of purchasing 

 safe conducts from enemies, 314 ; injury inflicted on the fishery by French 

 privateers, 315 ; grant by the States cf Holland towards equipment of 

 convoying ships, 316 ; continued disputes with the sovereigns of the 

 House of Austria respecting "last money," 317-319 ; inadequacy of the 



