| Description | Correspondence between Joseph Chamberlain [as President of the Board of Trade, 1880-1885], Sir Charles Cecil Trevor [Assistant Sec, Board of Trade, 1867-1895], Lord Dalhousie [John William Maule-Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie: Chair of the Royal Commission into Complaints by Line and Drift-Net Fishermen of Injuries by use of Trawl-Net and Beam Trawl Vessels in Territorial Waters of the U. K.], and Samuel Laing [MP for Orkney and Shetland] relating to the North Sea Fisheries Conference at the Hague [1881-1882], and the implications of new regulations for the registration of smaller sized fishing vessels |