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PRÉSENT CONDITION or FISHING GROÙNDS.
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supply.
The only serious question that appears is the steady
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diminution in the number of the sailing—boats and of the men
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shing in them.
Several factors probably are connected with
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this change—the rst is the abundant supply brought in by the
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steam—trawlers and steam—liners to great centres in easy com— -
munication with railways and a large population, so that the”
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prices paid to outlying towns and villages less 'favourably
situated are greatly reduced and even rendered uncertain.
The number of powerful ships with great trawls probably
tend to scatter the shes, and render them more wary in regard;
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to all kinds of capture, and it may be to keep further from land,
and while the shes may not, taking a broad survey of them, be '
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much reduced, and the totals in the market even. increase,
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yet each ship and boat probably secures much less than in former
times.
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In any case, the thoughtful perusal of the foregoing annual
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statistics of shes caught by line andtrawl does not giverise
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to dissatisfaction,and, taken with the results of the work in
1884,_and the ten years’ experiments of the “Garland,”
with other observations, conduces to condehcein the future of
the sea—sheries(
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