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53. Kundapur river, 18 miles north of Malpe, is the last 

 port in South Canara. It makes a good fishing station, as the 

 river has a depth of 10 feet at high water of spring tides, with 

 about 2 feet at low tide. 



54. Table of the mean range of ordinary spring tides at 

 ports in the Madras Presidency : 



West Coast. [ Hast Coast. 



V. — General Conclusions. 



55. From a study of the details given above, several facts 

 of outstanding importance emerge ; we see that the differing 

 conditions of weather and physical characteristics met with on 

 different sections of the coast and sometimes even at ports on 

 the same part of the coast have in the past necessitated the 

 employment of fishing craft and cargo lighters of several 

 different and distinct types to conform with special local require- 

 ments, a fact to which we must give full weight when deciding 

 upon the design and rig of any experimental deep-sea fishing 

 boat to be introduced at special ports ; we see that although 

 the West Coast of this Presidency, with an extent of coast line 

 one-fourth of the extent of that on the East Coast, produces 

 according to Sir F. A. Nicholson's computation thrice the 

 weight of fish taken on the other, the fishing season there is 

 restricted in large measure to the fine weather season of the 

 north-east monsoon ; lastly, we have to note the success of deep- 

 sea fishing wherever an attempt has been made to tvork it with 

 large or specially designed boats, by the fine Ratnagiri boats drift 

 netting off the Canarese coast, the seer lining off Tuticorin, 

 and the flying-fish fishery of! Negapatam and Tranquebar ; we 

 have noted further that, with the exceptions named, the 

 fishing craft of the Presidency are wholly unsuited by reason 

 either of smallness and lack of shelter, combined in the case of 

 the Malabar canoe with inability to face even moderately rough 

 weather, to make prolonged trips to sea and to carry nets of 

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