AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE 

 ENGLISH EDITION 



THE English press has given my book a very flattering 

 welcome, and I am glad to seize an opportunity of 

 expressing my gratitude ; especially would I thank 

 Mr. Stephen Reynolds, who stated, in the Daily News, 

 his encouraging opinion that an English translation 

 was called for. Finally I have to thank Mr. Fisher 

 Unwin, who has taken the initiative in offering this 

 translation to the English public. 



It is true that I wrote for my compatriots ; wishing to 

 advise them as to the development of ocean fisheries, to 

 put them on guard against their mistakes, and to do my 

 best to prepare a better future for them. But the model 

 which I have held before their eyes, the country I advise 

 them to imitate, is Great Britain. I will even say that 

 it is enough to understand the history and the economy 

 of the English fisheries in order to formulate the general 

 rules of the industry. Such is the truth I have tried 

 to establish contained in a few lines ; and in this light 

 I would put before our friends across the Channel a 

 book which was in fact written for them as well as for 

 my countrymen. 



The English have always had the faculty of uniting 

 tradition and progress ; with them the things of yesterday 

 and the things of to-day are not in perpetual conflict. 

 Along the quays of Hull, Grimsby, and North Shields 



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