DIFFICULTIES AND REMEDIES 



. This enterprise had proved very beneficial, par- 

 ticularly on the South-Western shore, and craft 

 which when dependent on sail alone had proved 

 unprofitable became sources of satisfactory income 

 to fishermen when internal combustion engines were 

 installed. 



The Fish Food Committee worked on the basis of 

 giving Government aid to enterprising fishermen, 

 and during the war this system was extended very 

 considerably and proved satisfactory and encourag- 

 ing. Simultaneously arrangements were made by 

 which many hard and fast pre-war regulations were 

 amended or cancelled, so that fishermen might have 

 larger and safer areas in which to work. The result 

 of these alterations was that many prohibited areas 

 were available and such stringent regulations as 

 those which had governed the three miles limit were 

 in abeyance. 



The naval authorities, who had an almost incre- 

 dibly heavy burden put upon them, made special 

 efforts to enable fishermen to carry out their ordinary 

 work, and so it happened that while of necessity 

 vast regions which had been previously open to steam 

 trawlers, drifters and long-liners were put out of 

 bounds, there became available many very useful 

 inshore and other fishing areas. 



When the Fish Food Committee came into being 

 one of the first problems it had to deal with was the 

 disposal <->\ an immense supply of food in the form 

 of pickled herrings. It was publicly stated thpl 



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