CHAPTER IX 

 CONCLUSION 



THE British nation spends three 

 times as much on consumption of 

 tobacco as it does on fish, and twelve 

 times as much on alcoholic drink. When 

 one considers that only a section of the 

 people smoke and drink, whereas almost 

 everybody eats, or, to be more correct, 

 should eat, fish, these figures are made 

 still more disproportionate. The British 

 fisheries have perhaps not always deserved 

 the attention of the public. That the 

 industry has been shackled by the tyranny 

 of custom, and that the organization has 

 been inefficient, goes without saying ; but 

 by awakening to the great possibilities of 

 development by the use of steam and 

 other improved machinery, the industry 

 no longer merits the contempt of the 

 public. The steam trawler is one of the 



