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At Locbinver and Glendhu the herrings have been also 

 abundant, and fished in considerable quantities about the 

 same time, of a similar size to the kind fished at Loch- 

 broom. 



REPORT, 1858, OF DUTCH HERRING-FISHERY 1857. 



The herring-fishery in Holland, once so successful, 

 having gradually declined, partly in consequence of the 

 improved quality of the Scottish cured herrings supplant- 

 ing the Dutch herrings in the continental markets, the 

 Government of Holland wished to take active measures 

 to resuscitate or improve the system in that country, and, 

 in 1857, adopted and copied to a considerable extent the 

 regulations which have been so successfully followed out 

 by the Fishery Board in Scotland, and which have brought 

 the Scottish Herring-Fishery to be one of unexampled 

 prosperity. For the first time a Herring-Fishery Board 

 was appointed this year in Holland, and several im- 

 portant laws and regulations were enacted, and, among 

 others, the Crown brand has been introduced, together with 

 various brands or marks expressive of the difi"erent quali- 

 ties, so that everything proves that great eff'orts will be 

 used to increase a fishery which at one time brought so 

 much wealth into Holland, and laid the foundation of its 

 great industrious prosperity. For the first time also the 

 Commissioners of the Dutch Fishery Board, nine in num- 

 ber, are required, in imitation also of our Fishery Board, 

 to give an annual report of the fishery, and from this docu- 

 ment we learn that the Board was installed on the 15th 

 December 1857. 



It appears that the greatest difficulty which attends the 

 Dutch herring-fishery is one which long impeded the Scot- 

 tish fishery, namely, the salt duties, which now no longer 



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