ANGIElfT FISHING INBUSTEIES. 



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All tlie aacient fishing industries, whetlier still existing or 

 extinct, except in their remains, ]beax traces of the times in 

 ■which they originated. Pisciculture was had recourse to at a 

 very ancient period, but chiefly in connection with fresh--water 

 fishes — the ova of such being the most readily obtainable ; or 

 ■with the moUusea, as these could bear a long transport, having 



PACKING HERRINGS. 



a reservoir of water in their shell. Sea fishers of the olden time 

 dealt with the fish for the purpose of their being cured with salt 

 or otherwise, simply, as has already been stated, ])ecause of the 

 want of rapid carriage and a comparatively scanty local popular 

 tion. 



The pSirticular fishing industry which has bulked largest in 

 literature, and was pursued in a systematic way, is, or rather 

 was, that of the Dutch, for Holland does not at present make 

 her mark so largely on the waters as she was wont to do, being 

 at present surpassed in fishing enterprise by Scotland and other 



