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these precautions will be studied at the experimental 

 station. 



There is also, for cured fish, a plan of some promise, 

 viz., a modification of the cod banks system of a mother- 

 boat with her swarm of dories (small open boats) which 

 do most of the actual fishino- and brino- the catches to 

 her to be cleaned and salted down. A large boat 

 provided with proper curing arrangements on board, 

 might easily stay well out at sea for weeks together 

 receiving continually the catches from the ordinary 

 smaller boats and treating them on the spot. This, 

 however, will only be necessary should there be a 

 development of real deep sea fishing at some distance 

 from land. 



19. But one obvious improvement in preventing taint 

 is in preventing death ; in other words the use of the 

 live well, live chest, or live car is to be strongly urged 

 on practical men. It is astonishing that nowhere in 

 India^so far as I can ascertain — is this simple and 

 natural precaution found ; in Great Britain, Holland, 

 Scandinavia, Germany, etc., it is still common notwith- 

 standing the present rapidity of communication and 

 universal use of cheap ice. The welled smacks of 

 Grimsby, etc., that is, smacks built with a compartment 

 amidships open by auger holes to the sea, in which live 

 cod, etc., were placed and brought alive to land, were 

 very common till a few years ago, as also the live chests 

 in the harbour in which the live cod were placed till 

 needed for market ; these have now partly died out but 

 are still well known, and I have inspected at Grimsby 

 large steam liners provided with these compartments 

 which had just brought thousands of live cod to the 

 wharf from the fishing grounds hundreds of miles distant 

 and hundreds of fathoms deep ; in America and Grimsby 

 I saw live cars in use, i.e., chests shaped like canoes but 

 covered in and bored with holes, into which the fish were 

 placed and towed behind the fishing boat ; in Norway 

 the cod are not only brought in this same way to shore 

 but are put into market tanks whence they are sold to 

 purchasers ; on the Danube steamers may be seen towing 

 a chain of live cars ; in Japan I have seen them made of 

 bamboo and torpedo shaped so as to be towed readily 

 through the water. Where live wells or cars are not 

 used it is often the practice to have on the boats closed 



