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administration which is usually wise, competent, and 

 liberal. The fishery companies and trawler companies 

 are provided with ample capital ; for in England fishery 

 is an industry, not a speculative investment. 



This industry is based not only on the long experience 

 of English fishermen, on economic tradition and unsleep- 

 ing initiative, but also on the scientific organisation of 

 the English fisheries. You have not been afraid to spend 

 money on useful experiments, and have studied the 

 biology of the principal marketable species, the question 

 of the migration and the transplantation of fish, the value 

 of reservations, and the efficiency of different forms of 

 gear and tackle. You have also undertaken purely theo- 

 retical inquiries into the salinity and temperature of the 

 seas, the nature of the ocean floor, &c. 



Such is a synthesis of British fishery and of fishery in 

 general. I have expounded it at length in the following 

 chapters, and it has been a pleasant task to a sincere 

 admirer of Great Britain. 



MARCEL A. HERUBEL. 



[It is perhaps hardly needful to explain that the above details 

 refer to our great fishing-centres only ; the small fisherman in the 

 small commercial port or watering-place is often far from pros- 

 perous, being at the mercy of a small close ring of buyers and 

 an indifferent freight service. There are signs here and there of 

 a tendency to co-operate with a view to obtaining petrol engines, 

 which would enlarge the available radius of the vessels. (TRANS.)] 



