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Title: Otter-trawl fishery. Letter from the secretary of commerce transmitting communication from the commissioner of fisheries, submitting a report on the otter trawl fishery, in compliance with items in the sundry civil appropriation acts approved August 24, 1912, and June 23, 1913 ..
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of fisheries. (from old catalog) Alexander, Alvin Burton, 1854- (from old catalog) Moore, Henry Frank, 1867- (from old catalog) Kendall, William Converse, 1861- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Trawls and trawling
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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have always been and still arevery different from those in this country. There trawling has under-gone a progressive evolution, here it has just begun in a small wayat the modern end of that evolution, both in the .development of theengines of that method of fishing and the fishes sought. Therefore the early considerations of the subject of trawling haveonly a general, if any. application to the question in this country, asthe conditions, until recent date at least, are incomparable and a com-parison, to be of much value, must be of synchronous and analogousconditions What was concluded by the Royal Commission of 1863,or any other commission or select committee, or the fact that 40years ago or at any time prior to the advent of steam trawling, andparticularly the otter trawl, a great scientist or other authority made12 VINE >?■ &■ %;%. $ =t .-.■■•■•: -••• J fS ,#■* .-•-■ ^5 i tf £ « ^ A V 3000 FISHING E COD TO i Figures on bank:in square geogra) 58*
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r8386 —II. Doc. 1619, 68-8. (To face pag,- 12.) OTTER-TRAWL FISHERY. 13 this or that statement or came to this or that conclusion, affectsthe present question to the extent only that the statement or conclu-sion holds good at the present day and that it applies on this sideof the Atlantic. Although the present conditions in the fisheries of Great Britainhave been reached through changes and progress of many years, andthose of this country are of recent and comparatively sudden develop-ment, the bones of contention have apparently been handed alonglittle changed through the various periods in Great Britain; andfinally, still little changed, have crossed the Atlantic to America.When analyzed, the allegations against trawl fishing seem to have hadtheir origin in that one economic factor that has been an ever-presentcause of complaint against each and every innovation in fishery meth-ods and appliances in whatever country—competition. Therefore, most of the investigations and inquirieottertrawlfisher00unit

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