228
'
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
and now for the 10 or. 18—mile limit, or perhaps even
more.
So little can be done by man in the way of altering
nature’s laws in the sea that it might be more prudent to leave
the adjustment of the supply and the demand in her hands.
_
Some bewail the destruction by trawlers of the rich grounds
of the North Sea which they say have been “shed Out,”——
necessitating voyages to the Bay of Biscay and the west Coast
of Ireland, and learnedly asSert that all shes have decreased in
size since they have. not been allowed time to reach maturity.- =
They have found that screw—propellers must kill myriads of
«
young and destroy the Heating eggs, though unfortunately the
facts are kept in abeyance as being perhaps unnecessary where
sensational effect is important.
_
_
'
Î :
The situation may be summed up as follows :—the apparent
success and general adoption of another method of shing from
that pursued by the liners evoked strenuous opposition.
sides, as time advanced the shes in many areas seemed to be
‘
fewer and more wary, so that the liners had difculty in making
sufciently large
“ catches.”
So many competitors, indeed, are
,
in the eld that it is now necessary to proceed further from
shore so ‘as to make the pursuit protable.
'
Instead, howe‘vér,’
of placing the onus of the scarcity on any
method of
such as trawling, it would be more reasonable to lay the blame
on general over—'Sbing. Certain it is that, with the exception
of the herring and the cat—sh, all the important food—shes -
,
have oating or pelagic eggs, and are scatheless from trawls. 1
Nor will the introduction of the paddles and screws of steamers
,_
alter the case.
Notwithstanding one or two shreds and patches .
Of science, trawled»shes hold their own in every market in
_Ï
,
our country, and'on “an average command a higher price than
line-caught shes, though nothing can exceed the condition of '
‘
the latter.
The half—informed outcry about the destruction of
the food of… the shes on the bottom has been silenced. "‘The
'
last.strOnghold,viz. the grave and permanent .deterioration
‘
our ‘inShore and Offshore ‘sheries, has" been
the
pages,—and, by
unbiassed examination
‘
-
.of the areasthemselves,äçanÿd;pfthe
‘.
‘
.themzthe c
'
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
and now for the 10 or. 18—mile limit, or perhaps even
more.
So little can be done by man in the way of altering
nature’s laws in the sea that it might be more prudent to leave
the adjustment of the supply and the demand in her hands.
_
Some bewail the destruction by trawlers of the rich grounds
of the North Sea which they say have been “shed Out,”——
necessitating voyages to the Bay of Biscay and the west Coast
of Ireland, and learnedly asSert that all shes have decreased in
size since they have. not been allowed time to reach maturity.- =
They have found that screw—propellers must kill myriads of
«
young and destroy the Heating eggs, though unfortunately the
facts are kept in abeyance as being perhaps unnecessary where
sensational effect is important.
_
_
'
Î :
The situation may be summed up as follows :—the apparent
success and general adoption of another method of shing from
that pursued by the liners evoked strenuous opposition.
sides, as time advanced the shes in many areas seemed to be
‘
fewer and more wary, so that the liners had difculty in making
sufciently large
“ catches.”
So many competitors, indeed, are
,
in the eld that it is now necessary to proceed further from
shore so ‘as to make the pursuit protable.
'
Instead, howe‘vér,’
of placing the onus of the scarcity on any
method of
such as trawling, it would be more reasonable to lay the blame
on general over—'Sbing. Certain it is that, with the exception
of the herring and the cat—sh, all the important food—shes -
,
have oating or pelagic eggs, and are scatheless from trawls. 1
Nor will the introduction of the paddles and screws of steamers
,_
alter the case.
Notwithstanding one or two shreds and patches .
Of science, trawled»shes hold their own in every market in
_Ï
,
our country, and'on “an average command a higher price than
line-caught shes, though nothing can exceed the condition of '
‘
the latter.
The half—informed outcry about the destruction of
the food of… the shes on the bottom has been silenced. "‘The
'
last.strOnghold,viz. the grave and permanent .deterioration
‘
our ‘inShore and Offshore ‘sheries, has" been
the
pages,—and, by
unbiassed examination
‘
-
.of the areasthemselves,äçanÿd;pfthe
‘.
‘
.themzthe c