The Mission of Fishing and 

 Fishermen 



IT was quite a long time ago 

 that a compelling sense of duty 

 led me to undertake the exon- 

 eration of a noble fraternity, of 

 which I am an humble member, from 

 certain narrow-minded, if not mali- 

 cious, accusations. The title given 

 to what was then written, " A De- 

 fense of Fishermen," was precisely 

 descriptive of its purpose. It was 

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