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nonsense about private enterprise, they could bring the force 

 of opinion to bear in favour of the construction of great 

 public works all round the coast, they would not only be 

 securing a large increase of the fishing industry, but would 

 also be increasing the supply of that grand human raw 

 material which would defend our coasts against any enemy, 

 and secure for ever the supremacy of England on the sea. 



Mr. BlRKBECK, M.P., had great pleasure in seconding the 

 motion. It was most gratifying to the Executive Committee 

 that they had been so fortunate in the selection of the 

 gentleman who had just read the paper on this very important 

 industry, and felt sure that when the ultimate result of the 

 Exhibition was collected, as he hoped it would be in a very 

 formidable blue book, this paperwould appear in it, and prove 

 of very great interest. Personally he took great interest in 

 this question, because from his boyhood upwards he had 

 been over these very grounds to which Mr. Mundahl had 

 referred, and perhaps even further ; he had been up as far 

 as Spitzbergen and seen shark fishing there. One of the 

 most amusing incidents in connection with that fishing was 

 this. When the smacks about the size Mr. Mundahl had 

 referred to had commenced their fishing, sport was very bad 

 for the first few days, because they had to get rid of the 

 smaller sharks, and, rather than throw them overboard and 

 let them sink down for the larger sharks to feed upon, they 

 adopted the very ingenious plan of taking out their livers, 

 introducing a pair of bellows, and, sewing up the shark's 

 belly, let the fish float away with the tide, so that the 

 larger sharks they wanted to catch would not prey on the 

 smaller ones. He felt confident when this question of line 

 fisheries was more prominently brought before the country 

 that the application of capital to far more distant grounds 

 v/ould follow, and in that way the supply of fish would be 



