_
-
'
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
229
and not alarm.
In coming to this conclusi0n not only the shes
captured for commerce, but the Heating eggs in their season,
-
«
"
and the minute young shes, of which no ordinary sherman
'
has any knowledge, have been duly considered.
"
'
'
_
Just as in the case of the food—shes, the antiquity of "the ‘
,_
Coral shery1, the comparative freedom in regard to working,
—
and the exhaustion of certain banks, have led to suggestions for
…
.
restriction.
Thus it has been proposed to make a Close season
3
during the development of the eggs,‘ but as this period stretches
from April to September and even later, the very season when
1
'
the shery can best be carried on, the su ggesti0n is
;
,
The proposal of Prof. Lacaze Duthiers to divide the Algerian‘
waters into ve areas, each of which should be shed in
succession, is noteworthy, th0ugh by no means easy to carry out.
Such proposals in regard to the red coral of com‘merce have
certainly this to be said in their favoiir, viz. that the corals are _
-
Xed throughout life with the exception of the
pelagic
-
larval existence.
If any form, therefore, would be beneted
” _
the closure of areas, it
be this species, which holds?
ï
prominent a place amongst the products of the sea captured by
mah“
for gain.
Yet, it_ may be asked, where‘ has thisbeen
'
efCiently and systematically carried out with a corresponding,
and notable result to the'coral shery ?
‘
'
_'
É
,'
Sûppose,for the 'sake of argument, that “a new kind cf
"
_
sherman appeared, who, by means of an ingeious“ instrument,
captured the lob-worm in greater numbers and more quickly in ”
the same area, so that it tOok much harder
work for the older
:
shermen to secure a supply; indeed one of the new Sherrje‘n .
obtained as many
.in a given time as four of the old, Legislation
Ï
might, in the same ”manner 'as in the case of the
to step in and close the tidal
ÿh€:1l€W she1men,
_
who would require to pursue ‘theirÇalling byapparatus wo1kmg
under waten Is it to be
and Comparatively local species, Ç such
of
old and the
more difcult«to a…… sapp1y, butthoseacquæntedmhthe
-
'
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
229
and not alarm.
In coming to this conclusi0n not only the shes
captured for commerce, but the Heating eggs in their season,
-
«
"
and the minute young shes, of which no ordinary sherman
'
has any knowledge, have been duly considered.
"
'
'
_
Just as in the case of the food—shes, the antiquity of "the ‘
,_
Coral shery1, the comparative freedom in regard to working,
—
and the exhaustion of certain banks, have led to suggestions for
…
.
restriction.
Thus it has been proposed to make a Close season
3
during the development of the eggs,‘ but as this period stretches
from April to September and even later, the very season when
1
'
the shery can best be carried on, the su ggesti0n is
;
,
The proposal of Prof. Lacaze Duthiers to divide the Algerian‘
waters into ve areas, each of which should be shed in
succession, is noteworthy, th0ugh by no means easy to carry out.
Such proposals in regard to the red coral of com‘merce have
certainly this to be said in their favoiir, viz. that the corals are _
-
Xed throughout life with the exception of the
pelagic
-
larval existence.
If any form, therefore, would be beneted
” _
the closure of areas, it
be this species, which holds?
ï
prominent a place amongst the products of the sea captured by
mah“
for gain.
Yet, it_ may be asked, where‘ has thisbeen
'
efCiently and systematically carried out with a corresponding,
and notable result to the'coral shery ?
‘
'
_'
É
,'
Sûppose,for the 'sake of argument, that “a new kind cf
"
_
sherman appeared, who, by means of an ingeious“ instrument,
captured the lob-worm in greater numbers and more quickly in ”
the same area, so that it tOok much harder
work for the older
:
shermen to secure a supply; indeed one of the new Sherrje‘n .
obtained as many
.in a given time as four of the old, Legislation
Ï
might, in the same ”manner 'as in the case of the
to step in and close the tidal
ÿh€:1l€W she1men,
_
who would require to pursue ‘theirÇalling byapparatus wo1kmg
under waten Is it to be
and Comparatively local species, Ç such
of
old and the
more difcult«to a…… sapp1y, butthoseacquæntedmhthe