718 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
that was used 1800 years ago. When we do devise some different way of catching 
fish than towing nets or dropping baited hooks, we will still face the essentially 
inhospitable environment of the sea, and will still remember the words of that 
first author on fishing concerning the lot of the fisherman: 
But for the toilsome fishermen their labors are uncertain, 
and unstable as a dream is the hope that flatters their hearts. 
For not upon the moveless land do they labor, but always they 
have to encounter the chill and wildly raging water. 
Joel W. Hedgpeth 
