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Committee than that a few small fishes should “run some 
risk” of dying a day or two earlier than they would 
‘have done in the ordinary course of nature. 
Having, I think, fairly dealt with the shrimp question, 
Jet us look for a minute or two at the restriction ‘in size of 
mesh in trawi nets. 
First of all, we must understand that in a trawl net it is 
to the fisherman’s interest to use as large a mesh as he can 
| profitably do, for the larger the mesh the easier the draft is 
through the water, the better the trawl keeps the bottom, 
and, owing to the greater speed, the more fish are caught. 
But this is qualified by the necessity of having a mesh small 
enough to keep all the fish worth having. To shew the 
necessity of interfering with shrewd, practical men wHo 
‘know their business, the committee show two jars, one sup- 
posed to illustrate the average size of fish taken with seven- 
inch mesh, the other with four and a-half inch mesh, which 
would escape through the larger, and, as they say, “‘ remain 
to grow to adult age.” If the fish in the smaller jar are a 
fair average, in the gross some would be larger, some 
smaller. Many of these are big enough to cook, and are 
far more delicious than larger-specimens. 
But I see with surprise that about half the bulk are 
young whiting. Surely the scientists must know that not 
_ one of these could possibly wriggle through the net and live. 
While the smaller mesh retains them to be made use of, the 
