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encouragement which the flag of England always gave 
would be afforded to those industrious men who risked their 
lives in an important and interesting calling, and that it 
would be found that some of our gunboats would be placed 
on important fishing grounds as a regular institution of the 
future. Mr. Mundahl had explained in the most graphic 
and interesting language the whole operation of line fishing, 
and no doubt there were many things which would be 
eminently suggestive to those who had listened to the 
paper. He had certainly taught him a great deal ; and no 
doubt every one, although they might be acquainted with 
the subject, would learn something. It was not always, 
even in these interesting discussions, that everything useful 
was to be learned, and nothing which had a contrary 
tendency ; he did not know whether it was the fault of the 
reporters, but he read the other day in the Zzmes that at 
one of the previous Conferences it was laid down as a fact 
that the fishermen were a class of persons so very impro- 
vident and so very poor that they were always in debt. 
Whether that was so in other parts of the country he could 
not say, but with regard to the two great fishing districts 
he had been acquainted with, viz. Great Yarmouth and 
Grimsby, he did not think there was a more provident, 
saving, and God-fearing class all round than the fishermen 
of those two places, and he decidedly objected to its being 
put forward that they were so improvident that all the year 
round they must be in debt. Again, they were told on 
eminent authority that these men ought to put their money 
into saving banks and things of that kind, and ought never 
to enter into speculation by putting their money into the 
fishing industry with which they were connected. Now, 
his opinion was that the man who was connected with any 
industry which he liked, which he conducted with success, 
