They control and dominate the Baltic trade, and herring is an important part of that, because herring will keep once it's salted and all that.

他们几乎控制和掌握了整个波罗的海贸易,而鲱鱼则是其中的重要组成部分,因为鲱鱼一旦用盐浸泡过就可长期保存

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At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.

于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上

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