Rights owned first by the Bruyns family who salted harders and makrel which were dried and hung om "stelassies", put into old "trap-balies" and salted.  They were sold to the farmers of Paarl, Wellington and Worcester areas.  At first they were taken by wagon to the these areas and sold for about £2 to £3 peer 1,000 or were bartered for vegetables.  Later the fish were put into sacks and sent by goods train.  The rights were bought by Gysbert van Reenen van Breda in 1888.  The business was continued by K.P. (Uncle Kenny) van Breda until he sold the business in 1959, the same year that Marine Oil Refiners bought Klein Vishoek from him.