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That belief is not at present shared by all the author's many 

 friends in the fisheries. But is that not simply because Science, 

 absorbed in its researches, and loathing ' advertisement ', has 

 not hitherto explained the situation in simple language"^? No 

 Fabre has, as yet, turned his attention to the ocean. 



To the writer it seems that Science was in a position, years 

 ago, to explode several old fallacies. For generations, for 

 instance, driftermen have ' known ' their ' interests ' to be 

 diametrically opposed to those of trawlermen ; and that 

 researches into the herring must be something quite distinct 

 from those into trawl fish. Modern investigations have shat- 

 tered this creed by showing that herrings, cod, and haddock- 

 are governed largely by the same influences in the same year, 

 and that these influences should all be studied as a single group. 

 Has Science, again, ever explained that cod and haddock and 

 ling and hake are among the herrings' most formidable enemies, 

 so that every cod trawled may mean a few more thousand 

 herrings in the gill nets ? 



These two propositions properly stated and reiterated by 

 naturalists in plain terms could, perhaps, have stopped much 

 futile dissension in a Jiouse which cannot afford to be divided 

 against itself. 



