Fishing industry in Scotland to feed the fisher and their immediate community. By the medieval period, salmon and herring were important resources and were exported to continental Europe, and the towns of the Hanseatic League in particular. As the industry developed, "fishertouns" and villages sprang up to supply the growing towns and fishing became more specialised. The many religious houses in Scotland acted as a spur to fisheries, granting exclusive fishing rights and demanding part of their tithes in fish. In the early 19th Century, the British Government began to subsidise the catches of herring boats larger than 60 tons, plus an additional bounty
Fishing industry in Brunei net ("rantau") hangs from buoys ("patau") which float on the surface of the water. This method of fishing is used to catch fish like "tamban" (sardines) which swim in shoals near the surface. Drift net fishing usually takes place at night and in the early morning, and is an offshore fishing method. In deep seat trawling, the net is dragged along the sea bed using the fishing boats called "trawlers". This technique is used both for inshore and offshore commercial fisheries. A "bubu" is a large box- or conical-shaped trap used to catch large fish like red snapper and grouper.