Moreover, wastage is infinitely greater on the trawler which actually 

 throws back into the sea, without any profit, two thirds by weight of the fish 

 caught, while on the sailing vessel, in which the selection is done at the ori- 

 gin, many fish in the "trash fish" category do not take the hooks baited for 

 cod at all, or do so only occasionally. This advantage, properly exploited, 

 could become a weighty argument in favor of line trawl fishing which catches, 

 moreover, by comparison to trawling, a clearly superior product. 



If the great Portuguese fishery remains faithful to the handline, of a 

 yield inferior to the line trawl, for the principal reason that it is cheaper, 

 one sees at the same time on the banks, the American and Canadian fisher- 

 men using a particularly expensive technique, but profiting from the line 

 trawl fishery, the inverse of the Portuguese fishery, and offsetting the dif- 

 ference in cost by means of modern procedures and materials. 



One can only affirm that, under these new conditions, the French line 

 trawl fishery, in its artisan form, has said its last word in Newfoundland. 

 As much from a sociological point of view as well as from the point of view 

 of the professional status of the crews, one must regret that this is so, for 

 the average dory assured, for a season two months shorter, a return great- 

 er than that coming to a sailor on a steam trawler; and this gain was still 

 greater for the head doryman. Moreover, the artisan fishery made ventur- 

 ous fishermen, with initiative, daring, and personal responsibility, while 

 the sailor in the modern industrial fishery has the greatest chance of always 

 staying in the mass as a man "without specialty". 



A little late and in a hesitant way, modernization was tried on the line 

 trawlers, from 1929 to 1939, by a number of French vessels. 



The boats used were of various types, sailing vessels with auxiliary 

 motors characterized by double gross tonnage and carrying capacity com- 

 pared to the old three-masters; and, exceptionally, steam vessels outfitted 

 for line trawling. 



These boats shipped many splitters and salters having no other duty dur- 

 ing the fishing season, and crews specially charged with preparation of the 

 cod under the direction of the former. Thus the fishermen, freed from the 

 task of gutting their catch and from various other duties, had only to attend 

 to the business of fishing proper. They could thus, thanks to the use of 

 motor dories, carry out a much more efficient and less fatiguing operation 



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