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week, that is not much more than £1 a week each for the men 
After allowing for wear and fear depreciation, &c., and as 
fishing is a highly-skilled labour, I think everyone will 
admit that this very much understates the earnings. But 
this gives us £12,480 per annum as the value of the harvest 
of which the 80 boats have been arbitrarily deprived (I take 
80 as midway between 7o and go), and the country, ot 
course, has lost food to this value, and for no purpose what- 
ever except that large fish may have a grand time feeding 
on what, together with themselves, rightfully belongs to 
tielaishermen: The harvest, however, of which the men 
have been deprived would have been mostly shrimps, and 
these employ the fishermen’s families in preparing them 
for the market, in shelling the small ones for potting, &c., 
and in retailiug the large ones. During these processes 
the shrimps nearly double in value. It appears, therefore, 
a a reasonable estimate, on Professor Herdman’s own 
statistics, that this enclosed area yielded the fishermen 
and their families an income of nearly £25,000 per annum, 
so that by his beneficent oversight they have, by this 
time, been robbed of some £150,000. 
~ No wonder Dutch shrimps are sold in Southport since 
this authority was established in presence of such a state- 
ment as'this in the report. No wonder the fishermen feel 
they are cruelly and wantonly shut out from the harvest 
God has. given them, and that they try now and then to 
