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be again employed." {Orders voor Jagers en Stuirlieden 

 hehoudene tot de Haaring Vischery van Zuid en Nooixl 

 Holland.^ 



The Dutch herring-fishery laws have lately been con- 

 siderably modified ; and the advantages of a Fishery Board 

 and inspecting ofiicers having been fully ascertained from 

 the great success of the British system, the Dutch Govern- 

 ment has created a Board of Commissioners, with similar 

 powers to those possessed by the Commissioners of the 

 British Herring-Fishery. 



6. NORWEGIAN FISHERY. 



Norwegian Method. — The herring-fishery of Norway 

 is very considerable, and gives employment to a great 

 number of the inhabitants on the sea coast. The modes 

 of fishing are various, and there is great variety as to the 

 size of boats and number of nets. The general practice 

 is, that when the herrings are caught near the shore, the 

 boats carry the herrings to the curing stations, or, if at a 

 distance from the shore, there are large vessels lying, 

 with barrels and salt, prepared to buy and cure. The 

 nets and mode of fishing are similar to ours ; but there is 

 one mode of fishing which has not yet been practised on 

 our coasts, — namely, with a long range of strong nets, 

 having small meshes to prevent the herrings being fixed 

 in the meshes, which would cause the nets to sink, and 

 defeat the purpose for which they are intended, they 

 often drive into the narrow bays or creeks among the 

 rocks, where the herrings abound, an enormous body of 

 herrings, where, the nets being made fast, the herrings 

 cannot escape, but are taken out and cured at leisure. A 

 friend has sent us the following interesting description of 



