Malayan Fishes 



BY 



C. N. Maxwell 



INTRODUCTION. 



* * Fish is not a luxTiiyj but an absolute jieMSBary of fife, with a. riM" 

 mating populiition, " 



"It 58 obvious tbftt in ordef to secure an adie^quatc and plenttful supply 

 of flBb, eiapecially to Iarg« cities like Calcutta. , -we muat go fur- 

 ther out— 4nto the deep — vrbichj after All, is the larg^t pepositoi>* of 

 piscin{! wealth, facts and fignrcji rolatluj^ to the scw-fishories 



of Great Britaiu, the United States and Cauada. .ought to tip^u 



our «jres to tlie groat poesibilitieft which be before u*" 



"In Bengal, Goverament will have to do a great deal niorej it will 

 have to create and buHd up the eea-flshiBg indiiattyf with thft object of 

 haudiag it, k^t xis hope at no distant date^, to prhuto eutorprise, 



"It iivilJ also be iifct^spatj" to show the best way of working the estuarine 

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

 peditiously to market in a sounei state." 



Sir K. Oupte, K. 0. S. 1, Roport on 

 Fishcrii^i of Bengal and into Fiahcrj 

 iiiHtters in Europe and Amerii^a, IDOS, 



"I appeal-to the whole populaKon of the^e Inlands, a maritime people 

 who owfi OTsr^'thiog to th4s sea, 1 urge them to become twttor informed in 

 regard to our natioo&l Bea-fi^b^rics and babe a more oDtigbtened interest m the 

 basal principlea that un^orlie a rational regulation and exploitation ot these 

 impOTtant indu8triefl» National ctboiency dependnt to * very praat extent upoji 

 tho degroQ in which scientidc; reiiults and methods are apptiiuiated by the people 

 *nd scientific investigation ia promoted by tbo Goveroment and other admini^- 

 tratiy« authoritiea. The ^TiaQiplea arid dipcot^eries of Goienoe apply to ^quiculture 

 DO less than to ngricnlture. To incteaas the harveet of the sea the flsberiea moat 

 bo continuously iiivoatigated " 



W. A. nerdman. C.B.E., D, 8e., F.H*S», 

 etc. AduuhlI address of the President of 

 the British Assoc iutlou 1920, 



* In BO other seetioo of our food supply, ..... . .coulil the applica- 

 tion of capital to a comparatively gniall amount mean so Knm»'uU'tnh\Q n 



dcvdoiJoii^ot ..Both as regard* loilway and cold gtorage faeilitiefl 



the fish trade is in its infancy. Tmnsportatioit" 



cheap and rapid, muat be provided by the State— flsh tfuins should bavo 

 precedence — and rates should be very loiVj, ev<?ii to the extra t of entailing 

 ■ooneidcrable lo»s. " 



The Earl of Dunraven, Paper read bo- 

 fore the Royat Statistical Society^ March 

 SO, 1917. 



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