CHAPTER XXVI. 



A PLEA FOR SEA FISHER IKS. 



" And Oo<l said, 'Let tin' water* bring forth abundantly.' 

 And God blessed them, saying, ' lie fruitful and multiply, and 

 (ill the waters in the seas.' 



' And have dominion over the fish of the sea.' " — 



Genesis i, 20, 22, 28. 



To those who have travelled with me thus far from a love of 

 the subject the following plea lor Indian Sea Fisheries may prove 

 not uninteresting. I quote it as I do the previous Chapter, in the 

 hope, moreover, that there may rise among my readers, others who 

 hereafter may succeed in forwarding the cause of pisciculture in 

 India. Dr. Day has laboured much and left the scene with 

 in 'thing set on foot for practical pisciculture. I have done my 

 little all for 12 years, and am not sanguine of anything being done 

 before my retirement. Though it come not in my time, still I 

 cannot abandon the hope that come the day will. If these two 

 < !hapters aid in any way in advancing it either by instigating others 

 to take an interest in the subject, or by aiding ever so slightly any 



that may hereafter take it up, they will not have burdened my 1 k 



to no purpose. The report to be now quoted was written mi the 

 receipt of the thousand and one questions circulated by the late 

 Famine Commission. 



A Proposal for Making Indian Fisheries a Means of 

 Alleviating Indian Famines. 



Numerous and exhaustive though the questions arc which 

 search and probe for information valuable to the alleviation and 

 prevention of famine, nevertheless there is a source of food supply 

 for millions which has altogether escaped attention, and that 

 although it is a source of food supply which, 



( i. i Has a special relevancy to the famine enquiry, in that it is 



