CHAPTER VIII 



FISHERIES OF AMERICA 

 A COMPARISON 



FOR purposes of illustration it would 

 be interesting to compare the 

 Canadian fisheries with those of the 

 North Sea. The seas on the east and 

 west coast of Canada, being situated in 

 a zone ranging from temperate to frigid, 

 should (according to the argument out- 

 lined in another chapter) be highly suit- 

 able for propagation of large quantities of 

 fish. Ranging over those countries border- 

 ing the seas of the North Hemisphere, with 

 an average temperature like that of the 

 North Sea, we should expect the waters 

 adjacent to Japan and British Columbia 

 in the Pacific, together with those adjacent 

 to Newfoundland and the New England 

 States in the Atlantic, to have the same 



admirable conditions for fish life, pro- 



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