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fishery, 432 ; protection of fishing vessels by convoys, 433 ; contract 

 between owners for mutual insurance against losses by war, 433 ; 

 measures taken for protection of fishing vessels from Dunkirk privateers, 

 434 ; establishment of a representative body, 435 ; evidences of a con- 

 siderable export trade in cured (fish, 436 ; difficulties with Denmark 

 respecting the Iceland fishery, 437 ; fluctuations of the trade, 437 ; use 

 of well boats for preserving fish alive, 438 ; enactment prohibiting export 

 of such boats, 438 ; decline of the fishery, 439 ; grant of bounties in- 

 effectual to revive the trade, 440. Coast fishing Branches of the fishery 

 comprised under this term, 440 ; description of vessels employed, 441 ; 

 places engaged in the North Sea fishery, 441 ; smoked herring or 

 "bucking," 442 ; comparative immunity of the coast fishery from herring 

 laws, 442 ; coast fishermen prohibited from curing herring, 443-445 ; 

 prosperity of the coast fishery in the early part of the eighteenth century, 

 445 ; its subsequent decline, 446 ; grant of bounties, 446 ; legislation as 

 to the kind of nets to be used in the " fresh fishery," 447-451 ; attempts 

 to stop trawling, 449-451 ; decline of the "fresh fishery," 452 ; fisheries 

 of the Zuider Zee, jealousy between fishermen of the various states 

 bordering the Zuider Zee, 453 ; description of fish caught there, 454 ; 

 disputes at an early period as to use of improper nets, 454, 455 ; con- 

 tinuance of these and other disputes after establishment of the Republic, 

 445-458 ; regulations for the Jherring fishery, 459 ; fitful invasions of 

 herring shoals of immense size, 459 ; disputes with England as to the 

 right to fish in the open sea, 460-475 ; similar disputes with Denmark, 

 475-482. THE FISHERIES SINCE THE END OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC 

 Establishment of the Batavian republic, 482 ; abolition of the " College 

 of the Grand Fishery," and constitution of the "Committee for the 

 Affairs of the Grand Fishery," 482 ; falling off in the herring fishery, 

 483, 484 ; strict application of the laws for the protection of the Grand 

 Fishery, 485 ; general decay of the fisheries, 486 ; codification of the 

 laws respecting the fisheries, 487, 488 ; provisions of the new law, 489, 

 490 ; rights appertaining to the different branches of the fishery defined, 

 490-492 ; constitution and functions of the Grand Fishery Committee, 

 493 " hospital ships," 494, 495 ; grant of bounties renewed, 495-497 ; 

 formation of an African whaling company, 497 ; injury caused to the 

 fishery by the wars following the peace of Amiens, 498 ; abortive attempt 

 to establish a Dutch herring company in London, 500 ; abolition of the 

 Dutch fishery laws at the time of the annexation to France, 500 ; esta- 

 blishment of the kingdom of the Netherlands, 502 ; revival of the herring 

 fishery laws, 502 ; grants of bounties and other measures for the pro- 

 motion of the fisheries, 502 ; attempts to revive the whale fishery, 503 ; 

 further protective legislation with respect to the cured herring trade, 

 504-512 ; opposition to the Grand Fisheries monopoly of curing herring, 

 506-510 ; definition of the different qualities of cured herring, 512, 513 ; 

 Dutch fishermen prohibited from fishing within a certain distance of the 

 British shores, 513; organisation of '-'sale hunting" with doubtful 

 results, 515, 516; effects of foreign competition, 516, 517 ; proposal for 

 the formation of an association with the monopoly of collecting herrings 



