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in Norfolk, where crabs were not as large as on the south 

 and west coasts, were in favour of a larger size being 

 named than that which was placed in the Act, viz., 

 4l in. across the crab's back. That was such a tiny thing, 

 and contained so little meat, that a very small extension 

 in the size would produce much more valuable food for 

 the table, and the fish would increase its species in an 

 enormously large proportion. With regard to the district 

 which Mr. Cornish had spoken of, where fishing could be 

 carried on for over 200 square miles without doing any 

 harm, he would point out that there was a great natural 

 protection existing there, for that fishing ground was 

 exposed to all the tremendous rollers of the Atlantic 

 Ocean, so that it could not be fished so constantly and 

 incessantly as inshore crab fisheries, and those places 

 around the shore where it was acknowledged on all 

 hands that crab and lobster fisheries required protection. 



