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had adopted for cooking fish, when he was reminded by 

 the Chairman that the special subject of the Conference 

 that day was crustaceans. He said he would not detain 

 the meeting, but had also devised a method for preserving 

 fish in the form of powder, by which the whole of 

 the nutritive constituents were preserved, including the 

 albumen. 



Mr. BlRKBECK, M.P., then moved a vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Cornish and to Mr. Saville Kent for their interesting 

 papers, which had contained a deal of information 

 which was probably new to many persons present. 

 Mr. Cornish had told them of a remarkable fishing ground 

 on the coast of Cornwall, which might be safely fished 

 without any restrictions, whilst on the other hand Mr. 

 Saville Kent had given statistics proving that the supply 

 of lobsters was apparently decreasing rapidly. He 

 might say that on the coast of Norfolk there was a 

 small lobster and crab fishery on a ground of about 

 fourteen miles in length by three to four miles in breadth, 

 which many years ago was a very productive fishery, but 

 unfortunately the practice of breaking up small crabs' for 

 bait, and also the practice of sending to market berried 

 hen lobsters, was carried on to such an extent that the 

 fishery was reduced really to nothing. He was asked to 

 institute a Board of Trade inquiry, and the late Mr. 

 Buckland and Mr. Spencer Walpole came down and held 

 it ; the result being that an order was passed putting a 

 stop to the capture of berried hen lobsters and also the 

 soft crabs, and the fishermen were strongly advised to 

 stop the breaking up of small crabs for bait. That order 

 was in force for three years, and when it expired, which 

 was on the 1st of February this year, another inquiry was 



