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The Impoverishment of the Sea. A Critical Summary of the Experimental and Statistical Evidence bearing upon the Alleged Depletion of the Trawling Grounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

Walter Garstang
Affiliation:
Naturalist in charge of Fishery Investigations under the Marino Biological Association; late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
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In the present essay I have endeavoured to bring together the most precise and reliable evidences available as to the recent and present condition of the great trawl and line fisheries of England and Wales. Both these fisheries depend for their success upon the same fundamental conditions, viz. the abundance of fish upon the bed of the sea. They may rightly, therefore, be grouped together under the single head of “bottom fisheries,” in contrast to the fisheries for herrings, mackerel, and pilchards, which are “surface fisheries.” From the nature of the case, even great fluctuations in the annual produce of the latter fisheries scarcely excite surprise, but a fairly constant yield is tacitly expected of the bottom fisheries, when the same apparatus is employed, owing to the greater uniformity in the conditions of life on the sea-floor.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1900