NOTE 



Most of the chapters in this volume have been printed serially 

 in the Westminster Gazette, to the Editor of which the 

 Author's special thanks are due. Two sketches of fishing 

 on a large scale from a French port have been added by way 

 of contrast, and of those two 'A Herring Haul' has been 

 printed in Blacktuood's Magazine, Three other chapters 

 are based on articles which have appeared in the English 

 Revieiv and Country Life. The Appendix 'Small Holdings 

 on the Sea,' is reprinted from the Daily Neix)S in the hope 

 that more attention may be drawn to the subject before it is 

 too late. 



