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8. Economical value of the herring fisheries. 



As regards, finally, the preparatiou of a Dational economy of the 

 herring fisheries, which is of great importance for this whole question, 

 I have also made extensive studies, which I hope to embody in some 

 work on this subject. 



That I should meet with many diflficulties was, of course, to be ex- 

 pected, but this did not deter me from continuing my studies, especially 

 after I began to realize that the i)rincipal mistake of those who had, 

 before me, given the herring question some attention was that they had 

 overestimated the importance of the descriptive treatment of the natu- 

 ral history of the Herring, and had neglected the economical aspect of 

 the question. 



