Difficulties in collecting fish tithe

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the problems that emerged in the 19th century Faro- ese society when radical changes in population, production, trade as well as culture took place. The author follows the rising difficulties in collecting the fish tithe, as it is described in the biannual reports from the local sheriffs, legal disputes, correspondance with the governmental offices in Copenhagen as well as documents from the prolonged considerations in the local parliament, the Løgting. It becomes clear that not only changes in the ways the fishing was performed had an impact. The diverted changes in people´s culture and conception of law lead to a situation where old customs and moral altered. The old law on fish tithe had to be rescinded. It happened in 1892 after 17 years of debate in the local parliament.