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excellence. Trawlers, moreover, do not remain long on a ground 
where the fish caught include a heavy percentage which has to be 
rejected. But in spite of all that it must be said that the chance of 
recovery of the fish returned to the water in commercial trawling is 
a small one. 
For this reason, if our fisheries are deteriorating by over-fishing, 
a prohibition which prevents the trawler from fishing in places where 
he will have many fish to throw overboard is a right one. Such is 
the case with regard to in-shore fishing, and all the more so because 
the rejected part of the catch would consist for the most part of the 
young of the important food fishes. That such a prohibition is 
beneficial is evidenced by the results of our in-shore trawling 
experiments. 
