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
Ministry of the Fishing Industry (Soviet Union) Ministry of the Fishing Industry (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Fish Industry (Minrybprom; ) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union responsible for prodiving the state policies on the fisheries industry. The People's Commissariat of Fish Industry USSR was established by the ukase of the Presidium Supreme Soviet USSR of 19 January 1939, which divided the People's Commissariat of Food Industry USSR into People's Commissariats of Fish Industry, Food Industry, and Meat and Dairy Industry. On 15 March 1946, the People's Commissariat of Fish Industry USSR became the Ministry of Fish industry USSR. On 8 May 1946, the Ministry