310 CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HERRI^•G-FISHERY. 



barrels fished and cured, and number of barrels caught on 

 the average by each buss : — 



There are also several parts of the coast of Holland 

 where the fishermen take herriDgs of a small or inferior 

 quality, and also sprats, for the purpose of smoking and 

 pickling. It is remarkable, that in the Zuyder-Zee, in the 

 year 1857, the fishery of the peculiar quality caught there 

 was much diminished, and the fishermen sustained great 

 loss to their nets, in consequence of the unusual number of 

 dog-fish ; and the same destructive fish was very abundant 

 and injurious to the fishermen, both on the West Coast 

 and the East Coast of Scotland in the same year. 



The fishery in the Zuj'der-Zee is called the "pan-fishery," 

 the herrings are caught late in the year, and in the begin- 

 ning of the year ; and the report says, that it has been 

 observed that the pan herrings have for some years ap- 

 peared later than in former years, which has had some 

 influence on the prices, because the demand is generally 

 greatest during the fast weeks of the Eoman Catholics. 



The quantity brought in of this description of herring 

 to Monnikendam, the head-quarters of this fishery, con- 

 sisted of only 1198 lasts, of about 10,000 herrings to the 

 last, against 1539 lasts in the preceding year. The 



