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fish, or drift bottles, or other data interesting to scientists, 

 hardly ever hear of the results of their find. So this chapter 

 closes on the same note as other chapters. So long as ocean 

 research workers and fisher-folk regard each other as beings 

 inhabiting distinct spheres of activity, so long will the present 

 unhappy state of things continue. Marine science will be 

 regarded as the preserve of a small and exclusive mutual 

 admiration society ; and fishermen, for lack of direction, will 

 continue to draw unreliable conclusions from unsystematic 

 premises. 



