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DISCOVERIES ON THE FISHING ' 
GROUNDS. 
Issued as a Parliamentary paper' the special 
committee’s recent report on matters concern¬ 
ing the British fishing industry is of interest 
also to anglers. By the oceanographical obser¬ 
vations which have been made by the quarterly 
cruises of the vessels employed in the North 
Sea, and by others, considerable progress has 
been m^de toward knowledge of the effect of 1 
ocean currents on the North Sea. Still, obser¬ 
vations at more frequent intervals, and extend¬ 
ing further into the Atlantic and the Arctic 
oceans, are required. Progress has also been 
made with regard to knowledge of the bottom 
of the North Sea, and of various in-shore areas, 
but the fishing banks in other waters have 
scarcely yet been investigated. The chemical in¬ 
vestigations have been directed chiefly toward 
the determination of salinities as a method of 
tracing dcean currents, and progress has been 
made in this direction, but the work so far re¬ 
mains uncorrelated with investigations into 
Plankton, and statistics of the catch of fish. 
The general investigation of the chemistry of 
the sea in relation to the food supply of fish 
reihains almost untouched, although important 
work in this direction is in progress. Knowl¬ 
edge of the flora and the fauna of the sea has 
been advanced; the Plankton investigations of 
the North Sea are of importance. Many memo¬ 
randa on individual marine animals, or groups 
of animals, have been published, and important 
additions have been made to the knowledge of 
the life history of many animals of economic 
value. The habits, rates of growth, mode of re¬ 
production, migrations, and distribution of the 
eel, cod, haddock, skate and herring, and of 
plaice, sole, and. turbot, have been studied, the 
international investigations having been very 
important in these respects. Of special prac¬ 
tical value, says the report, is the accumulation 
of evidence as to the distinction between the 
more localized fish, such as flat fish, and those 
of more migratory habits. In the former case 
the operations of man appear to tend toward a 
depletion of the fishing grounds, and when the 
results of recent investigations are fully avail¬ 
able they should provide valuable material for a 
discussion of such remedial measures as the es¬ 
tablishment of closed areas, either at certain sea¬ 
sons or for a term of years, and the restocking 
by transplantation of exhausted areas, or the 
stocking of new and probably favorable areas.— 
Anglers’ News. 
— 
A PERSISTENT BIRD. 
Years ago, when Prof. Otis T. Mason was 
training the young and before he had entered 
upon the comprehensive ethnological studies 
which have made his name famous in the pub¬ 
lications of the Smithsonian Institution, he re¬ 
quired each of his pupils, at a certain stage of 
progress in study, to write a letter. One of his 
youngest boys had constantly failed to accom¬ 
plish this task, and was finally told that he 
must do his duty or be sent home to his mother. 
The boy at last said through his tears: ‘‘Pro¬ 
fessor, I can’t write a letter, but I think l ean 
write a story.” He was allowed to substitute 
this for the letter, and here is what he wrote: 
“Wunst ther was a precher and he got onto 
a ship and he saled and saled and saled and bime 
by he come near, a iland and when he come near 
the iland a big storm come up and it blode and 
blode and blode and the precher and all the 
peepel on the ship thought they was goin to git 
drownded and a littel bird got blode of the iland 
and tride to gif onto the ship but evry time he 
tride to git onto the ship the ship leaned over 
the other way and the littel bird got left but he 
didnt set down in the water and cry he just kep 
peggin away and bime by he lit down into a 
sale and a saler went up and got the littel bird 
out of the sale and giv him some bred and water 
and bime by when the storm blode away the sun 
come out and the ship come to land and the 
precher and all the peepel was ,glad and the bird 
flude away. 
“Morel.—If you dont git what you want first 
jest you keep peggin away and youl git it bime 
by.” 
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