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a large scale. Last year the United States 

 took up 8,000,000 immature fish stranded 

 in the coast pools and transplanted them 

 on their fishery banks. If the nations 

 around the North Sea could agree to con- 

 struct hatcheries for the high-priced prime 

 fish, there is no reason why the banks 

 should not grow soles, turbots, and halibuts 

 in the same quantities as in the old days. 

 It is all a question of cultivation. The 

 time will surely come when, if fashion 

 demands a certain kind of fish, that fish 

 will be produced by cultivation, just as 

 now when the potato is fashionable the 

 potato is grown. Only the time limit 

 would have to be longer in the case of fish 

 than in the case of the potato, for fish do 

 not grow to maturity in one season. 



The difficulties caused by the war have 

 cut out many of the old prej udices. Hitherto 

 more than in any other industry the in- 

 dividual thought only of his own private 

 profit, his own little province as a preserve 

 of which the outside world should know as 

 little as possible. He was afraid of new- 

 comers bringing new ideas and by greater 

 efficiency successfully competing with him. 



