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climates. I allude, for instance, to the development of fishing boats 

 capable of staying at sea for days together and provided with wells for 

 retaining the catches alive indefinitely, the provision of trawl nets to 

 be used with such boats for securing better catches of better fish from 

 greater depths, the methods of drying, smoking, and packing fish for 

 inland transit, and so forth. 



20. Finally it is suggested that each successive famine or scarcity 

 or threat thereof only accentuates the necessity — the urgent necessity 

 — for additional supplies of food otherwise than from the uncertain 

 fields ; each successive year increases the normal pre?sure upon a 

 naturally poor and hard-pressed soil and therefore the need for more 

 food and more manure ab extra ; each successive year the fish in 

 inland waters tend to disappear with the greater inroads and demands 

 made upon them. Happily the sea is almost untouched and by a 

 proper development of marine fisheries alone we can add to the pro- 

 duce of our fields on land the almost inexhaustible harvests of an area 

 which, within only 30 miles from the Madras shores, includes 30 

 million acres of productive water. 



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