Fisheries - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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An Act for allowing a further bounty on vessels employed in the white herring fishery; for giving liberty to alter the present form and size of the nets used in the said fishery; and for other purposes therein mentioned
Great BritainDate: 1757
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The articles of settlement of the Benevolent Society for Granting Annuities to Raise a Stock for Improving the Fishery of Great Britain
Cholmondeley, DanielDate: 1714
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Observations on the report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the state of the British fishery . By Robert Fall, Esq.
Fall, RobertDate: 1786
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Reasons humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons for carrying on a national fishery
Date: 1720
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Two letters wherein the sovereignty of the British seas , and that the sole right of fishing in them, appertaineth to the King of Great-Britain, &c. is demonstratively maintain'd and Asserted; for Information of the Projectors of the new proposed Fishing-Company in Flanders. With remarks on the Dutch fisheries on our coasts and seas; and the great Advantages arising from them: with some account of the deficiencies of our sea-charts; and the Means whereby the same may be rectified at an easy Charge to the Publick. With a new map of the British coast and seas, including the Nymph Fishing Bank; with Account of two Voyages to it. Most Humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. Sir John Barnard, Knt. Lord Mayor of London; and the Merchant-Adventurers, Insurers, and Mariners of Great-Britain and Ireland; By William Doyle, hidrographer.
Doyle, William b. 1705?.Date: 1738