Malayan Fishes 



BY 



C. N. Maxwell 



INTRODUCTION. 



"Fish is not a luxury, but an absolute necessary of life, with a rioe- 

 eating population. ' ' 



" It is obvious that in order to secure an adequate and plentiful supply 

 ■of fish, especially to large cities like Calcutta ^ we must go fur- 

 ther out — ^into the deep sea — which, after all, is the largest repository of 



piscine wealth .facts and figures relating to the sea-fisheries 



of Great Britain, the United States and Canada ought to open 



our eyes to the great possibilities which lie before usk ' ' 



' ' In Bengal, Government will have to do a great deal more ; it willi 

 have to create and build up the sea-fishing industry, with the object of 

 handing it, let us hope at no distant date, to pri^•ate enterprise. 



' ' It will also be necessary to show the best way of working the estuarine 

 fisheries by improved methods of capture and of bringing the catches ex- 

 peditiously to market in a sound state." 



Sir K. Gupiia, K. C. S. I. Eeport on 

 Fisheries of Bengal and into Fishery 

 matters in Europe and America, 1908. 



"I appeal-to the whole population of these Islands, a maritime people 

 who owe everything to the sea. I urge them to become better informed in 

 regard to our national sea-fisheries and take a more enlightened interest in the 

 basal principles that underlie a rational regulation and exploitation of these 

 important industries. National efficiency depends to a very great extent upon 

 the degree in which scientific results and methods are appreciated by the people 

 and scientific investigation is promoted by the Government and other adminis- 

 trative authorities. The principles and discoveries of science apply toaquiculture 

 no less than to agriculture. To increase the harvest of the sea the fisheries must 

 be continuously investigated " 



W. A. Herdman. C.B.E., D. Sc, F.E.S., 

 etc. Annual address of the President of 

 the British Association 1920. 



' 'In no other section of our food supply could the applica- 

 tion of capital to a comparatively small amount mean so considerable a 



■development Both as regards railway and cold storage facilities 



the fish trade is in its infancy Transportation — 



■cheap and rapid, must be provided by the State — fish trains should have 

 precedence — and rates should be very low, even to the extent of entailing 

 considerable loss." 



The Earl of Dunraven. Paper read be- 

 fore the Royal Statistical Society, March 

 20, 1917. 



