Malayan Fishes 
C. N. MAXWELL 
INTRODUCTION. 
“Fish is not a luxury, but an absolute necessary of life, with a rice- 
eating population, ’’ 
““It is obvious that in order to secure an adequate and plentiful supply 
of fish, especially to large cities like Caleutta............ we must go fur- 
ther out—into the deep sea—which, after all, is the largest repository of 
piscime wealth or cle isla - facts and figures relating to the sea-fisheries 
of Great Britain, the United States and Canada............ ought to open 
our eyes to the great possibilities which lie before us.’’ 
““In Bengal, Government will have to do a great deal more; it will 
have to create and build up the sea-fishing industry, with the object of 
handing it, let us hope at no distant date, to private enterprise. 
““TIt will also be necessary to show the best way of working the estuarine 
fisheries by improved methods of capture and of bringing the catches ex- 
peditiously tc market in a sound state.’’ 
Sir K, Gupta, K. C. S. I. Report on 
Fisheries of Bengal and into Fishery 
matters in Europe and America, 1908. 
“1 appeal-to the whole population of these Islands, a maritime people 
who owe everything to the sea. I urge them to become better informed in 
regard to our national sea-fisheries and take a more enlightened interest in the 
basal principles that underlie a rational regulation and exploitation of these 
important industries. National etficiency depends to a very great extent upon 
the degree in which scientific results and methods are appreciated by the people 
and scientific investigation is promoted by the Government and other adminis- 
trative authorities. The principles and discoveries ofscience apply to aquiculture 
no less than to agriculture. To increase the harvest of the sea the fisheries must 
be continuously investigated............................. 3 
W. A. Herdman, C.B.E., D. Sce., F.B.S., 
ete. Annual address of the President of 
the British Association 1920. 
‘<In no other section of our food supply............ could the applica- 
tion of capital to a comparatively small amount mean so considerable a 
development. ice) s et Both as regards railway and cold storage facilities 
TAG: THIN rademas Tha Sm bam CY A a Transportation— 
cheap and rapid, must be provided by the State—fish trains should have 
precedence—and rates should be very low, even to the extent of entailing 
@onsiderable loss.’’ 
The Earl of Dunraven. Paper read be- 
fore the Royal Statistical Society, March 
20, 1917. 
