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Comparing these results with those of the Tuticorin 

 fishery, the following table shows the results obtained at the 

 latter during the time of the Dutch Bay fishery, viz., from 

 2nd March to 27th March : — 



The total quantity of the Government share of oysters, 

 was, therefore, 2,398,400, and the total sum realised during 

 the time under notice Rs. 55,871-6-5. 



A comparison of these two tables is very instructive and 

 brings out very clearly the fact that, whereas at Dutch Bay 

 the fishery was carried on without interruption (no fishery 

 took place either at Dutch Bay or Tuticorin on Sunday the 

 8rd, 10th, 17th and 24th), and, after the first few days, 

 during which time all the boats had not arrived, or were not 

 ready for work, a large and uniform number of boats were 

 at work daily and regularly bringing in good loads of 

 oysters ; at Tuticorin, on the other hand, not only was there 

 no fishery at all on three days (exclusive of Sundays), but 

 on different occasions, out of the entire fleet of 44 boats, as 

 few as 2, 3, and 12 boats were at work, with the result that, 

 during 6 out of the 22 working days under review, only 

 63,400 oysters, yielding Es. 1,781-6-5, fell to the Gov-ern- 

 ment share, i.e., the total yield of six days was less than that 

 which was, with one exception, the 19th, obtained as the 

 result of a single day's work. 



