13 HERRING FISHERY. 



the governments of this and many other coun- 

 tries have made fundry regulations concerning the 

 manner of cutting out ^he gills, falting, and pack- 

 ing, an account of which I fhall lay before my 

 readers. 



The Englifh have always looked on the com- 

 merce of Holland with an eye of envy, which 

 often burfts out into open a&s of violence, never 

 omitting any opportunity of difturbing, and, if 

 poflible, of ruining our herring fifheries; the more 

 fo as Dutch herrings have always had the pre- 

 ference of the Englifh, as well as of rhofe of every 

 other nation. In order to cut off all pretext of 

 quarrel, our fi fliers are forbidden to cafl their nets 

 within ten miles of the Englifh fhore, which pro- 

 hibition is the lefs detrimental to the fifhery, as 

 herrings of the bell quality are taken at fuch a 

 difhnce froin the fliore. * 



Thofe, which come into the bays of Norway, 

 Shetland and Ireland, being of an inferior quality 

 are lefs fit for prefervation or faking, for which rea- 

 fon it is forbidden by an ordinance, dated 1620^ 

 to take any herrings at the forementioned places. 

 Among the regulations, that have been made for 

 the fupport of the herring filliery, the following 

 are the principal ones. 



The appointment of a hearmeefter, or over- 

 feer, at all die landing places where herrings are 



brought 



