CHAPTER VI 

 SEA FISHERIES * 



THE industry we have to do with is an enormous 

 one. It is estimated that at the present time 

 there are over 27,000 vessels manned by more 

 than 90,000 seamen fishing from the ports of 

 Great Britain. They land over 900,000 tons 

 of fish, worth some 10,000,000, during the year. 

 In the course of a single day they bring ashore 

 some 3,000 tons of fish, and sell it for some 33,000. 

 These tons of food material (except the fish 

 destined for curing) are rapidly distributed 

 throughout the country, as rapidly eaten, and 

 next day the process is repeated. In addition 

 to the actual fishermen who remove the fish from 

 the sea, a great multitude of salesmen, packers, 



* A considerable portion of this Address appeared in the 

 Quarterly Review for January, 1907, and is now reprinted 

 from the " Proceedings of the Association of Economic 

 Biologists," August, 1907. The work here recorded extended 

 over the first four and a half of the Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion's work on the North Sea. 



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