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(d) the required staff (paragraphs 69 to 72) ; and 



(e) the approximate cost (paragraphs y^ and 74). 

 In paragraph 75 I have abstracted my several 



proposals. 



THE LINES ON WHICH EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT 



SHALL PROCEED. 



3. Two points will be steadily kept in view in the 

 present attempt to develop Madras marine fisheries. 

 The first is that the scene and scope of our work will 

 chiefly be in the deep sea, i.e., in the area outside of 

 the three-mile or even the five-mile limit ; I do not 

 propose to interfere, except in matters of detail, with 

 that inshore area, but to create a deep-sea fishery 

 anywhere outside of that limit. 



The second and most important is that it is the 

 food of the masses which is our chief concern, the food 

 of those vastly preponderating numbers (75 to 90 per 

 cent, of the population) who will always eat animal food 

 if they can get it, but can in no case afford more than 

 2 annas or so per pound even for good, solid nutriment, 

 and even less for ordinary fish or flesh ; I am less 

 concerned with the 4 to 6 anna folk who live in definite 

 centres such as Madras and who should be provided for by 

 ordinary trade organizations (of which there are begin- 

 nings in Madras and Calicut) operating with modern 

 plant for the supply of good fresh fish. The latter will 

 not be neglected, but the prime necessity, the first and 

 chief object of investigation and effort, will be the supply 

 in large quantities of cheap food preserved in a variety 

 of ways and of undeniable wholesomeness to the masses 

 in the interior ; cheap and good fish food and cheap and 

 o-ood fish manure for the million. Hence it is the sailino^ 

 boat and the curing yard rather than the steam trawler 

 and the refrigerating car which will primarily engage 

 attention. 



There is a vague popular idea that development 

 means "steam trawlers"; that there is an illimitable sea 

 harvest waiting outside only needing to be gathered in 

 by modern plant ; that the one necessity is to sweep in 

 the greatest possible quantity of fish and throw it upon 

 an avid market, and that this can be done by starting 

 steam trawlers, the first being, of course, a Government 

 experiment the success of which is to herald the modern 



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