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Vorpestian labour, who had been brought over to the island by Visser in an attempt to cultivate the land for an agricultural export-based economy, were given the option to return to [[Vorpest]] and stripped of company support in 1661 due to minimal returns. While most returned to their homeland, some remained in order to take advantage of Kabeiland's still-viable fishing industry. Despite half-measures taken by successive Administrator-Generals to regulate participation in the fishing industry, rampant overfishing became a constant during the remainder of the century.
Due to the damage caused to the ecosystem of the island and its ripple effect on Kabeiland's economic output, more extreme measures were taken in order to recuperate some of the losses accrued. Beginning in the
This policy would only further following the dissolution of the Confederation in 1710, with the Treaty of Non-Compliance and Commerce formalizing Kabeiland as a Rijk territory of [[Vistaraland]], owned by the [[See of Supremacy]]. Under the newly-established Merchant Colony of Kabeiland ([[wikipedia:Dutch_language|Vistarian]]: ''Handelskolonie Kabeiland''), lands were allocated to a number of Vistari landowners to administer and exploit as they saw fit, under the lax oversight of the Vistari Colonial Company. 40 more years of colonial rule on the island proved almost entirely a loss for the Vistari Colonial Company beyond the use of the island's ports as stops for trade ships. As such, when the Norgsveltian Borean Trading Company put forward intentions to purchase the island in the 1750s, Lodewijk Scheer was placed in charge and ordered to attempt to gain the best possible deal for Kabeiland. Scheer would do this through taking advantage of the lack of a formal survey of the island by the rival company, falsifying a number of reports to a drastic degree in order to evaluate the island far beyond its actual worth - a tactic also performed by the Borean Trading Company.
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