SUMMARY AND “CONCLUSIONS.
225
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shermen Were determined to deal with the abuses caused by‘
'
.
small-meshed nets,‘ especially those used by trawlers. Both
foreign and English shermen were“ punished for using such
'
nets to the dete'rioration of the
capturing the
,
The nets were seized, conscated and‘burnt.‘ The mesh
…'
_
of the'traWl—net was regulated and xed at various standards
’
in the time of Charles II.
Regulations indeed were carried
‘
out from the time of James II. to the accession of Queen Anne.
-
ÿ
Mr J ex (from whom the above is quotedl) says abuses were not
prominent until the Government ceased to regulate the mesh ”of
,
'
the
'
“
«
.
-
The need for caution in dealing with the question of the
sheries, indeed, must be apparent to all who have watched the
.
_
various phases during_the last generation. The_‘pr0minent
—
before the Royal Commission on Trawling under Lord Dalhousie
f
Ï‘;
-
.
was that the decline of the Fisher'iéswas alarming, and that
the approach of ruin was near. No reliable statistics other than
_
;
“those of cured shes were to be had, and thus it was difcult
’
_
to” form an Opinion of the exact condition. This alleged serious
diminutiOn was coincident with the appearance
of steam—:
in Scotland.
,
It Was not previously urged that the
Sailing=tratwlers, in open sandy hays, had ruined the shing
“there, and a doubt remains _as
to whether dissatisfacti0n so
_
.
._
general would have been expressed if the steam-vessels had not
_
entered vigorously into the same pursuit and on the same ground…
At any rate, a‘tendency to use the new seine—trawl has lately .
;.ÏÿÎ;ÿfÏ _appeared in various areas where formerly beam—trawls were
“employed by the liners.
‘
—;_ _May‘_ Will remember that the drift-net shermen of the
,]…]_West coast placed the blame of destroying the herring-shi‘ng]
_.on”the seine-net shermen.
Accordingly in 1860 a close _ti—IŒ6',
”, ‘Onfthe west coast, during the rst ve months of the year—«was
>Ëenjacted for ”the herrings.
herrin gs could “not be
caughtf b‘ait în cod—shing, and » starvaüon and
weaep1evaleut‘wbe the bel—rings“wère not & Wh‘itt 1mrmed
225
‘.
shermen Were determined to deal with the abuses caused by‘
'
.
small-meshed nets,‘ especially those used by trawlers. Both
foreign and English shermen were“ punished for using such
'
nets to the dete'rioration of the
capturing the
,
The nets were seized, conscated and‘burnt.‘ The mesh
…'
_
of the'traWl—net was regulated and xed at various standards
’
in the time of Charles II.
Regulations indeed were carried
‘
out from the time of James II. to the accession of Queen Anne.
-
ÿ
Mr J ex (from whom the above is quotedl) says abuses were not
prominent until the Government ceased to regulate the mesh ”of
,
'
the
'
“
«
.
-
The need for caution in dealing with the question of the
sheries, indeed, must be apparent to all who have watched the
.
_
various phases during_the last generation. The_‘pr0minent
—
before the Royal Commission on Trawling under Lord Dalhousie
f
Ï‘;
-
.
was that the decline of the Fisher'iéswas alarming, and that
the approach of ruin was near. No reliable statistics other than
_
;
“those of cured shes were to be had, and thus it was difcult
’
_
to” form an Opinion of the exact condition. This alleged serious
diminutiOn was coincident with the appearance
of steam—:
in Scotland.
,
It Was not previously urged that the
Sailing=tratwlers, in open sandy hays, had ruined the shing
“there, and a doubt remains _as
to whether dissatisfacti0n so
_
.
._
general would have been expressed if the steam-vessels had not
_
entered vigorously into the same pursuit and on the same ground…
At any rate, a‘tendency to use the new seine—trawl has lately .
;.ÏÿÎ;ÿfÏ _appeared in various areas where formerly beam—trawls were
“employed by the liners.
‘
—;_ _May‘_ Will remember that the drift-net shermen of the
,]…]_West coast placed the blame of destroying the herring-shi‘ng]
_.on”the seine-net shermen.
Accordingly in 1860 a close _ti—IŒ6',
”, ‘Onfthe west coast, during the rst ve months of the year—«was
>Ëenjacted for ”the herrings.
herrin gs could “not be
caughtf b‘ait în cod—shing, and » starvaüon and
weaep1evaleut‘wbe the bel—rings“wère not & Wh‘itt 1mrmed