'
238
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
.
Coasts.
The same opinion prevailed at that time (1868) in ?
Francel.
’
_
Mr Shaw—Lefevre states that from the Scotch returns the
—
average
catch of herrings for the 5 years previous to 1863
was 680,000 barrels, and for the 8 years ending 1881, 1,050,000
==
barrels, an increase of about 50 per cent.
During the same
period cod and ling had increased about 50 per cent. Thé
number of shermen had increased by only 15 per cent., the
number of boats by the same proportion, while the tonnage had
increased by 20 per
cent.
In 1863 there were 580 trawlerS
from Hull, Grimsby, Yarmouth, and Ramsgate, in 1881 there ‘ :
were 1500, and in addition the vessels were nearly double the
tonnage 2.
:
”
He tersely gives his opinion thus :———“I think that it
may be taken as an established and incontrovertible fact that
there has been no falling off in our sheries, but a very great .
;
increase, an increase in most cases greater in proportion than
in the number of men and boats employed,and giving an
_
adequate return to the very largely increased capital devoted
—
to
«
‘
'
-
Similar views were held by the late distinguished Prof
J. P. van Benedenof Louvain, who was a member of the Com;
missiOn appointed by the Belgian Government for 1nvest1gatmg
the subject of the sheriès. He was of opinion that the
_
'ducts of the Sea were ineXliauStible, and that no restriction
_
should
of marine she‘s.
His
distinguished
Benedèn of Liège,
Vicé=f
:
‘
ÏBÎGSîdÔËË' ÔÊ.f
permanent. Commission cn pisciculture (man—
culture), more _œèeaÿ opposed; the ”proposition to restrict the
_
the Commission—on the gr0uan that it
'
_PÏOVGd
'
that a general diminution had taken
,l_
Mr HoldSWorth’S article
in the Encyclopœdza
,
Same
*
rtthhurb18ssOnfnl
se
‘
*
;
’ÏE3
12-
238
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.
.
Coasts.
The same opinion prevailed at that time (1868) in ?
Francel.
’
_
Mr Shaw—Lefevre states that from the Scotch returns the
—
average
catch of herrings for the 5 years previous to 1863
was 680,000 barrels, and for the 8 years ending 1881, 1,050,000
==
barrels, an increase of about 50 per cent.
During the same
period cod and ling had increased about 50 per cent. Thé
number of shermen had increased by only 15 per cent., the
number of boats by the same proportion, while the tonnage had
increased by 20 per
cent.
In 1863 there were 580 trawlerS
from Hull, Grimsby, Yarmouth, and Ramsgate, in 1881 there ‘ :
were 1500, and in addition the vessels were nearly double the
tonnage 2.
:
”
He tersely gives his opinion thus :———“I think that it
may be taken as an established and incontrovertible fact that
there has been no falling off in our sheries, but a very great .
;
increase, an increase in most cases greater in proportion than
in the number of men and boats employed,and giving an
_
adequate return to the very largely increased capital devoted
—
to
«
‘
'
-
Similar views were held by the late distinguished Prof
J. P. van Benedenof Louvain, who was a member of the Com;
missiOn appointed by the Belgian Government for 1nvest1gatmg
the subject of the sheriès. He was of opinion that the
_
'ducts of the Sea were ineXliauStible, and that no restriction
_
should
of marine she‘s.
His
distinguished
Benedèn of Liège,
Vicé=f
:
‘
ÏBÎGSîdÔËË' ÔÊ.f
permanent. Commission cn pisciculture (man—
culture), more _œèeaÿ opposed; the ”proposition to restrict the
_
the Commission—on the gr0uan that it
'
_PÏOVGd
'
that a general diminution had taken
,l_
Mr HoldSWorth’S article
in the Encyclopœdza
,
Same
*
rtthhurb18ssOnfnl
se
‘
*
;
’ÏE3
12-