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EFFECT or TRAWL ON EGGS OF FISHES.
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unavoidably hooked, and _he brings them on shore or throws
them overboard without giving much heed to them, unless
requested to do so.
No marine zoologist of note would con—
sider, on this head, that the liner was ruining the food. f
shes, or to any extent affecting the welfare of the sher1es
On the
his ready courtesy and keen Observation
have been frequently of the greatest service to the natu1ahst,
who has been in the past, and is in the present, gre‘atly 1ndebted
to him for many rarities.
Yet the fact remains that the lme1
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lihewise captures numbers of every group Wh0se Wholesale
destruction is by some attributed to the trawler. A calm
survey of the situation, therefore, does not lend support to the
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"notion that the trawl, as ordinarily employed in sea-shing, lS
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the only destroyer of the invertebrate'anima1s of the bottom,
and, further, experience does not demonstrate that the sea—
bottom in any known region has been, by the use of such hne
or
trawl, so seriously impoverished as to be unable to support
'_sh—life.
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Efects of the Tmwl on the Eggs of Fishæ, on certam
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Ground—Fishæ, and very *Y01‘mg Fishes on the Bottom
In the Report of 1884: it was stated that ‘_no feature was
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