CHAPTER II 

 FISHING PORTS 



I. Generalities concerning the French fishing ports. II. Boulogne, 

 Fecamp, Arcachon ; Grimsby Description of these ports ; 

 their equipment and their physiognomy. III. Hull, Yarmouth, 

 Lowestoft, Aberdeen Description of these ports Esbjerg, 

 Geestrminde History of the latter : its organisation Cuxhaven, 

 Ijmuiden. IV. The French, English, and German administra- 

 tive systems. V. Conclusion. 



THE reader will have seen that a summary considera- 

 tion of the oecumene has led me to the same conclusion 

 as the general theory of fisheries; it is the same fact 

 translated into two different tongues; and we shall 

 frequently encounter it in this the second portion of 

 this book. 



I 



The sea must be ordinarily very rough, the currents 

 unusually dangerous, and the coast remarkably inhos- 

 pitable, if the traveller fails to perceive, along the shore, 

 the modest fishing boat sheltered in some little cove, or 

 hauled up upon the beach. There are fishing ports 

 wherever Nature will permit them; but the majority are 

 the ready-made havens in which our prehistoric ancestors 

 made themselves at home. Between the primitive port 

 and the modern port are all imaginable stages. Consider 

 Etretat in the Channel and Saint-Laurent de la Salanque 



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