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fisherman finds one net and the boat has to find two nets 
when engaged in shrimping. We can readily give similar 
“information in regard to other parts of our coast. 
Under (2).-The average take at Southport during 
the twelve months ending December 51st, 1902, was 30 
quarts per boat for each fishing day. The statisties for 
other boats and periods can readily be ascertained. 
Under (4.)--In addition to about 200 fishermen in 
Southport and Marshside all more or less engaged in 
shrimping, the potting of the shrimps is an important 
local industry, and provides a fair amount of work im 
boiling, picking and potting the catch. There are in all 
about 50 shrimp-potters in Southport, and.they utilise 
nearly all of the shrimps that are caught on our coast, 
and distribute them to nearly every town in Great 
Britain. The fishermen’s wives and children boil and 
pick the shrimps, and make them ready for the potters to 
prepare for market. During the last 15 years the South- 
port shrimp-potting industry has increased tenfold.» It 
must also be remembered that the boat-builders, net- 
makers, butter merchants, printers, pot manutacturers, 
and railway companies all share, more or less, in the pro- 
fits derived from the local shrimping industry. 
So far we have been dealing with fairly easily ascer- 
tainable facts, but 1m (5) and (6) we come upon contentious 
matters which are not strictly scientific, and in regard to 
which it might be difficult to get agreement. In (3) we 
also meet with difheulties, but of a ditterent nature. 
This is a scientific question, and the answer is to be 
obtained as the result of a large number of reliable 
statistics. Preeautions must be taken to see that the con- 
ditions under which statisties may be taken are normal 
and such as hold good in the course of the fishery. More- 
over, the practice may vary from time to time, or with 
