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Or -protectine the sea fisheries 2" <« ** Yes, sir,’ « he. said, 
‘“‘that is.their idea.” 
As he knew the sort of: weather I was in the habit of 
going out in, I said, ‘‘ How would it stand our work?’’ He 
laughed as he replied, ‘‘ You would knock it to, pieces in a 
week. But they do not intend to go out your sort of 
weather.”’ 
They did after a while find out their mistake, and sold 
the steamer. They then bought one which can face a bit 
of weather, and so at a great monetary loss to the county 
remedied one mistake which need never have been made. 
I do not give them great credit for this, for the information 
was knocked into them by old ocean, who showed them that 
their own lives were in danger, and however -the fishermen 
may fare, we must all see it would be a serious matter if a 
Professor and Sea Fisheries Superintendent ‘‘ ran some 
risk of being drowned.’’ They have never shown any 
inclination to acknowledge that their bye-laws were made 
on the same kind of information that induced them to buy 
their toy steamer, but in the same ignorance in which they 
bought their steamer their regulations were made and are 
enforced to-day. 
We will consider first fisheries proper and shrimping 
(cockling and musseling I will deal with later). -I will also 
take the scientists’ reports as far as che experiments are con- 
cerned, and assume that these were correct. , But I will try 
