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inquiry and experiments as to the best mode of producing so 

 useful a food in the greatest quantity. But no, it was reserved 

 for men of the present day, such as, in our own country, Mr. 

 Willughby, Colonel Montagu, Couch of Polperro, Pennant, 

 Yarrell, Sir Humphrey Davy, Dr. Parnell, Sir Wm. Jardine, Dr. 

 George Johnston of Berwick-on-Tweed, Mr. Donovan, Smith of 

 Deanston, the sub-soiler and inventor of the artificial salmon- 

 ladder, Dr. Knox, Mr. T. L. Parker, Sir Francis A. Mackenzie, 

 Mr. John Shaw, R. Buist of Perth, Ffennell, Lee, Ford, Thomas 

 Ashworth, the king of cultivators, as he was called in Galway, and 

 last though not least, Mr. Frank Buckland, to originate the study 

 of fish-life and fish-culture in river and sea ; and doubtless great 

 results have already been achieved by those pioneers and by the 

 united interest of capital and science, now fairly awakened to this 

 important point. 



That it is an important point to the public, especially at the 

 present period of high-priced provisions, may be gathered from 

 the Report of the English Sea-Fishery Commissioners (1866), 

 which informs us that " London alone consumes annually 80,000 

 tons of sea-fish, not estimating salmon, herrings, sprats, eels, 

 crabs and lobsters, oysters, mussels, and shrimps ; this in the 

 aggregate greatly exceeds in weight the consumption of beef in 

 London. The most frequented fishing-grounds are much more 

 prolific of food than the same extent of the richest land. Once 

 in the year, an acre of good land, carefully tilled, produces a ton 

 of corn, or two or three hundred pounds' weight of meat or 

 cheese ; the same area at the bottom of the sea, on the best 

 fishing-grounds, yields a greater weight of food to the persevering 

 fisherman every week in the year. 



"Five vessels, in a single night's fishing, brought in 17 tons 

 of fish, an amount equal in weight to 50 cattle or 300 sheep. 

 The ground which these vessels covered, during the night's 

 fishing, could not have exceeded an area of 50 acres." 



