VIU FOREWORD 



a task. It is hoped that at some future time this important service can be 

 completed as a separate undertaking of the Institute. 



The third part presented exceptional difficulties for the basic reason 

 that the economics of the fisheries has never anywhere been the subject of 

 comprehensive and critical analysis. Accepting the broad challenge, Dr. 

 Taylor has substantially extended the scope of the economic section of this 

 Survey to consider the fisheries of the whole country and, to an extent, of 

 the world. The results provide essential background for proper appraisal of 

 the conditions and potentialities of the fisheries of North Carolina or of any 

 other state or region. 



In this comprehensive report, completed now except for the part on 

 legislative and administrative conditions of the fisheries, we have, not only 

 a set of summaries and analyses of conditions in North Carolina, but also an 

 intensive and competent study of the peculiar nature of fisheries and fishery 

 industries wherever they may be. Originally intended to afford base and 

 background for research on problems of the fisheries in North Carolina, the 

 report should be of much wider interest and significance. Such an assembly 

 of facts concerning fisheries, with basic analyses and interpretations, has 

 never hitherto been available. 



It is to be expected, indeed it is to be hoped, that the report will 

 provoke wide discussion. Whether or not there should be differences 

 of opinion as to interpretations and conclusions, there can be no question 

 as to the high and enduring value, not only of the data assembled in this 

 report, but also of their treatment in the light of the Director's long and 

 broad experience in scientific studies of fish, of fishery technology, of 

 processing and marketing, and of administration of fishery industries. 



