al 
thought that anything beneficial could be done, why 
should Great Britain wait for the co-operation of other 
countries ? Our trawl-fisheries exceed those of any two 
bordering the North Sea for effectiveness, and consequently 
our benefits would be greater even if other countries reaped 
some'slight advantage through our self-denial. 
The Conference then adjourned for luncheon. 
The Conference was resumed at two o’clock. 
Mr. SALMON (Grimsby) quite agreed with Mr. Jex that 
every trawl carried by a deep sea fishing-boat should be 
limited in size.. There were a great many which were under 
the scale, and the consequence was that they caught a great 
_ quantity of immature fish which was entirely destroyed. 
Yesterday, for the first time in his life, he took the exact 
measure of the mesh of his trawl. There were five dif- 
ferent scales; the first was 3 inches, the second 2, the 
third 23, the fourth 2, and the last 13, and he thought such 
a scale of mesh would allow any unsaleable sole to escape, 
and that they had done all that could be expected in 
Grimsby to stop the catching of immature fish. But he 
thought it was utterly impossible to stop it altogether, 
because in the passage of the trawl over the ground, no 
matter what came in the way it was bound to catch it, and 
the speed the vessel carried the net over the ground, at the 
rate of 14 miles an hour, caused the meshes to be drawn so 
tightly that it was impossible for the small fish to escape, 
and even if they did escape after they had been a certain 
