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nonsense about private enterprise, they could bring the force 
of opinion to bear in favour of the construction of great 
public works all round the coast, they would not only be 
securing a large increase of the fishing industry, but would 
also be increasing the supply of that grand human raw 
material which would defend our coasts against any enemy, 
and secure for ever the supremacy of England on the sea. 
Mr. BIRKBECK, M.P., had great pleasure in seconding the 
motion. It was most gratifying to the Executive Committee 
that they had been so fortunate in the selection of the 
gentleman who had just read the paper on this very important 
industry, and felt sure that when the ultimate result of the 
Exhibition was collected, as he hoped it would be in a very 
formidable blue book, this paper would appear in it, and prove 
of very great interest. Personally he took great interest in 
this question, because from his boyhood upwards he had 
been over these very grounds to which Mr. Mundahl had 
referred, and perhaps even further ; he had been up as far 
as Spitzbergen and seen shark fishing there. One of the 
most amusing incidents in connection with that fishing was 
this. When the smacks about the size Mr. Mundahl had 
referred to had commenced their fishing, sport was very bad 
for the first few days, because they had to get rid of the 
smaller sharks, and, rather than throw them overboard and 
let them sink down for the larger sharks to feed upon, they 
adopted the very ingenious plan of taking out their livers, 
introducing a pair of bellows, and, sewing up the shark’s 
belly, let the fish float away with the tide, so that the 
larger sharks they wanted to catch would not prey on the 
smaller ones. He felt confident when this question of line 
fisheries was more prominently brought before the country 
that the application of capital to far more distant grounds 
would follow, and in that way the supply of fish would be 
