Kantje

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Kantje are barrels in which herrings have been placed in salt
The freshly caught herrings are slaughtered (grooved), salted and stored in barrels on board

Kantje is the name for a herring barrel.

It is also a unit of measurement that was used in the Dutch and German logger fisheries of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially for herrings . It referred to the usual barrel size on board for salted herring and lightly salted matjes herring. Depending on its size, a barrel contained around 800–1000 herrings.

The conversion factor for kantje into kilograms is highly controversial. The Dutch Institute for Fisheries Research, RIVO (Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research), sets an average value of 90 kg for a Kantje, with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea setting a value of 100 kg for the Netherlands and Germany.

The book by JM Verhoeff on older Dutch units of measure and weight, written for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, defines that a kantje is 94 kg, but packed in barrels on land, 100 kg. According to these scientific sources, the numbers for a kantje vary between 94 kg and 100 kg.

Two Dutch newspaper articles about the herring fishing companies Parlevliet & Van der Plas and Jaczon provide further explanations about the conversion factor of one kantje . These also speak of 100 kg for a kantje, whereby the list of nautical technical terms again speaks of 94 kg for a kantje.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. JJ Zeeberg: Table 2. Terminology in RIVO report C008 / 03 of the RIVO-Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, February 2003 (PDF; 300 kB)
  2. ↑ Dr. JJ Zeeberg: Table 1. Terminology catch statistics RIVO report Number: C028 / 04 of the RIVO-Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, April 2004 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  3. ↑ Report on Meeting on Scale and Otolith Typing and other Methods in Atlanto-Scandian Herring Research: Bergen, March 26th - 29th 1962 In: imr.brage.unit.no (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  4. ↑ JM Verhoeff: De oude Nederlandse maten en weights . Amsterdam, Meertens-Instituut, 1983, 131 pp.
  5. ↑ Marc van den Eerenbeemt: De handel in mooi rood doorbloede maatjes . In: volkskrant.nl of July 2, 1994.
  6. ^ Eerste Hollandse Nieuwe aan wal In: Reformatorisch Dagblad of May 24, 1988.
  7. ↑ Woordenlijst K . In: debinnenvaart.nl