. Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. An account of the practical working of the various fisheries around the British Islands. With illustrations and descriptions of the boats, nets, and other gear in use, by Edmund W. H. Holdsworth. Fisheries -- Great Britain; Fishing boats. LINE-FISHING. 149 owners, having a due regard for their own interests, will then withdraw many of their vessels from the fishery; less ground will be worked over, fewer tempt- ing baits will be held out to the unwary, and many fish which might otherwise have been caught will have an opportunity of spawning and helping to
. Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats. An account of the practical working of the various fisheries around the British Islands. With illustrations and descriptions of the boats, nets, and other gear in use, by Edmund W. H. Holdsworth. Fisheries -- Great Britain; Fishing boats. LINE-FISHING. 149 owners, having a due regard for their own interests, will then withdraw many of their vessels from the fishery; less ground will be worked over, fewer tempt- ing baits will be held out to the unwary, and many fish which might otherwise have been caught will have an opportunity of spawning and helping to restock the haunts of their ancestors. But when it is remembered that cod are only caught by hook and line—for the very few taken by the trawl are hardly worth con- sideration—and that their capture depends entirely on their being tempted by the baits, it is difficult to believe in the possibility of their numbers being so far reduced in the open sea as to cause any diminution which would not be made up yearly by a very small proportion of the spawn that would be produced by the survivors. It is not a question of spawning beds being destroyed, or of the fish being unable to get access to them, for it has been ascertained that the ova float and are developed at the surface of the water; but it is whether the cod can be so tempted to their destruction as to materially diminish their numbers for any time. This appears most improbable. When the smacks arrive with their cargoes of live and dead fish at Grrimsby the cod are taken out of the wells by means of long- handled landing nets, and are placed in wooden boxes or chests, which are kept floating in the dock ; and there the fish are stored till grimsby Cod-chest. they are wanted for the market. Each chest is 7 feet long, 4Teet wide, and 2 feet deep ; the bottom is made of stout battens a short distance apart to allow free admission to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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