THE PROBLEM 5 



profitable, it will result in extensions of 

 catching power, in increased exploitation, 

 and by the enterprise of the workers the 

 nation's food supply will be augmented at 

 a very anxious time. If people would use 

 more of this splendid food the supply 

 would increase, and ultimately the price 

 to the consumer might, by the enlarge- 

 ments of the delivery channels, be lowered. 

 The British fisheries can be best developed 

 by the vast populations of our manu- 

 facturing centres. The driving force of an 

 industry is the demand for the product. 



Remember, the average price of fish, 

 when landed, in peace time, taking all 

 kinds, was three-halfpence per pound. It 

 is not an ordinary question of supply and 

 demand; the supply, taking the North 

 Atlantic and Arctic Seas as a whole, is 

 unlimited ; it is the demand that is needed 

 to stimulate effort. When the war is 

 over and the fishing fleets are demobilized, 

 it will be found that the quantity landed 

 in the British Isles will be greater than 

 ever before. Immense shoals of countless 

 billions of fish have been for ages constantly 

 moving in these North European waters, 



