324 SEA FISHERIES 



owners of steam trawlers in that port, its object being 

 to keep the sale price of fish in the market as high as 

 possible. 



If I may use a vulgar but expressive symbol, I would 

 represent the French fisherman as struggling with two 

 men who are trying to strangle him, while a third strews 

 impediments on his path. The two first are easy to 

 recognise the octroi and the middleman. And the third 

 is the railway. 



