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the word employed in France, a cantonnement. The 

 utility of such reservations is proved by experience. 

 Here is M. Gounet's report : " Prohibited between 1793 

 and 1830 in the quartier of Marseilles, the grand gangui 

 was freely used after 1830, by tartanes of 10 or 12 tons 

 displacement, on the muddy bottoms some distance off 

 shore from Grand-Vallet (near Cap Couronne) to Planier, 

 and also to the west. The draughts used then to be 

 almost miraculous, and our old fishermen can remember 

 the time when 150 hundredweight of fish used to be 

 taken at each baou that is, each time the ox-trawl 

 was hauled. This abundance of fish very natural, if we 

 remember the prohibition which had lasted for thirty- 

 seven years and which demonstrates the excellence of 

 the principle of the reservations recommended to-day 

 had as its first result the equipment of Marseilles with a 

 new fleet of tartanes, a fleet which in a few years' time 

 was sixty strong, plying between Planier, Couronne, and 

 the mouths of the Rhone. Dories weighing from 4 to 

 7 Ibs. and fat hake of 15 and 18 Ibs. were sold singly in 

 the roads for next to nothing, for a few halfpence." 

 After the Bay of Marseilles, the Bay of Toulon had its 

 turn. In 1875, on the initiative of the patron Garnier, 

 the trawl was prohibited from April to June. This three 

 months' truce resulted in renewing the stock of fish, and 

 up till the end of the year the boats returned to the quays 

 loaded with red mullet. In 1888 the Administration 

 created vast reservations in the Aber-Wrach, near Brest ; 

 their success was complete. 1 There is no need to 

 multiply instances. It is henceforth proved that reserva- 

 tions are a necessity. The " Consultation Committee of 

 Sea Fisheries," in 1899, expressed the desire that the 



1 The reservations of Termini- 1 merese, in Sicily, gave equally 

 good results. 



