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249 (in 1752) to 120 (in 1783), and was 196 again at the end of that period. In the period 

 1794—1813, when Holland was Batavian Republic first and actually annexed to France 

 afterwards, "there was virtually an end of the Dutch sea-fishery for some years"; in the 

 years after 1813, it soon reached again something approaching its status of the latter part 

 of the former century. Under the ancient system of fishing regulation and protection that 

 was restored and which lasted till 1857, the herring-fishery of Holland did not reach how- 

 ever, anything of its former flourishing condition: 98 "busses" sailed in 1814 for the 

 "grand" cured-herring fishery and 92 in 1853, from Dutch seaports, the highest numbers 

 on the list for the long series of years being 169 in 1819 and 173 in 1830. The vessels 

 from the coast villages of Scheveningen, Katwijk and Noordwijk, do not form part of these 

 numbers. They were engaged in the fishery of salt herring for smoking (Steurharing), and 

 the number of these vessels shows a nearly regular increase from 35 in 1823 to 118 in 1853. 

 A true revival of the Dutch herring-fishery only took place after the new law of 

 1857—59 had substituted fishing liberty for fishery regulation. Since the introduction of 

 that law, the Dutch fisherman has been free to fish when, how and where he finds conven- 

 ient; since that time, foreign sea-fish can be imported in Holland duty free; since then, 

 the assays of herring are facultative, no more obligatory as before. In no branch of Dutch 

 fisheries, has the said revival been so apparent as in the herring fisheries. To show this, an 

 abbreviated survey of the Dutch North Sea Herring Fisheries, from 1853 to 1903 may be 

 inserted here. 



Table XSXIX. DeTelopiueiit of the Dutch herring flsherles since 1853 



Most of the keeled vessels used for the herring fisheries are so-called "loggers". Of 

 late steam-vessels came in use also, lu 1897, a steamer was used for the first time, 

 in 1901 7 steamships were used und 1 motor-boat 



- 1902 25 - _ _ - 1 _ 



- 1903 44 — _ _ . 1 _ 



> •Steurharing» is the name given to the herring which are caught towards the end of the voyage, and 

 which is not cured and packed in the ordinary way, but only salted and thrown on a heap to be packed or 

 smoked afterwards, 



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