=INVÉSTIGA‘I‘IONS IN ronTn,‘ “1893._
155
those who have gone minutely into the subject, and hencé have Ï "
been met with doubt and a desire for further information. '
The ,
main object of the various Royal COmmissions, of the
Fishery Board with its extensive ofcial ramications and its
large expenditure, of the special investigations which
within the last 14 or 15 years,” been
on
the life—historÿ'_
and development of the food—shes of our
is the welfare‘ ,
of the shing industry in all its bearings: To promulgate lavvs
for the administration and regulation of this
without an adequate and practical acquaintan‘ce with the
facts of the Case—would be most unsatisfactory if not disastious,
and unworthy of a country in which the search for
the advancement of knowledge are sufcient at all
enlist its best energies.
.
…
.
_
The foregoing remarks have been suggested by
tion of the haddock in the experiments of 1893. Beginning
'
in 1886 with the fair average of 845, then rising to the high
.-average of 129 in 1887, it for ve years subsequently had
.persistently kept at a low aVerage, indeed, in 1891 atavely:
_
low average (13).
There was thus a basis on which torest
_
the melahcholy pictures which for many years had been d1awn
of the Scotch line—shing.
_
Here, it might be said: wascleai
'
proof that the haddoc—k was diminishing in the Scottish
'
and that protection of one kind or other was clamant.‘
nature, in the vast domain of the Ocean, rise's above all
'
theories of the scientic and above
the notions
of the
“ practical
”
man.
This year (1893) the grand total of the
’
haddock, which we were to believe ”had been
-:out0f
every bay and shing—bank ”on the eastern sh0Tes-of Scotland,
.
mounted in itself above the total of every
kind Of
caught
“in the experiments of 1886, 1887 and 1888, “and'
268 less than that of
This single yea1pwducedmle
ï€Xperiments as many haddocks as any. ve
thePlOcedmg
'
…
«Fisherm‘eh were, indeed, struck by the unusually laigequanüty
"
small haddocks both in the 'ùishdfe‘ ahd‘:osh01eglounds
wh0le of the east Cdàstgiï'a‘l wh1chmadethenap—
155
those who have gone minutely into the subject, and hencé have Ï "
been met with doubt and a desire for further information. '
The ,
main object of the various Royal COmmissions, of the
Fishery Board with its extensive ofcial ramications and its
large expenditure, of the special investigations which
within the last 14 or 15 years,” been
on
the life—historÿ'_
and development of the food—shes of our
is the welfare‘ ,
of the shing industry in all its bearings: To promulgate lavvs
for the administration and regulation of this
without an adequate and practical acquaintan‘ce with the
facts of the Case—would be most unsatisfactory if not disastious,
and unworthy of a country in which the search for
the advancement of knowledge are sufcient at all
enlist its best energies.
.
…
.
_
The foregoing remarks have been suggested by
tion of the haddock in the experiments of 1893. Beginning
'
in 1886 with the fair average of 845, then rising to the high
.-average of 129 in 1887, it for ve years subsequently had
.persistently kept at a low aVerage, indeed, in 1891 atavely:
_
low average (13).
There was thus a basis on which torest
_
the melahcholy pictures which for many years had been d1awn
of the Scotch line—shing.
_
Here, it might be said: wascleai
'
proof that the haddoc—k was diminishing in the Scottish
'
and that protection of one kind or other was clamant.‘
nature, in the vast domain of the Ocean, rise's above all
'
theories of the scientic and above
the notions
of the
“ practical
”
man.
This year (1893) the grand total of the
’
haddock, which we were to believe ”had been
-:out0f
every bay and shing—bank ”on the eastern sh0Tes-of Scotland,
.
mounted in itself above the total of every
kind Of
caught
“in the experiments of 1886, 1887 and 1888, “and'
268 less than that of
This single yea1pwducedmle
ï€Xperiments as many haddocks as any. ve
thePlOcedmg
'
…
«Fisherm‘eh were, indeed, struck by the unusually laigequanüty
"
small haddocks both in the 'ùishdfe‘ ahd‘:osh01eglounds
wh0le of the east Cdàstgiï'a‘l wh1chmadethenap—