Ocean research and the great fisheries . bo fco -+3oo r/2. pi? p. 18 THE GREAT FISHERIES 19 Iceland in very dirty weather and filled her with fish till herdecks were awash. Incidentally he sank a U-boat, and (alsoincidentally) was badly holed and himself hit with landed his fish, and won the In the same way it is not as a rule sound business to transfera ship from one squadron to another. North Sea work is quitea different proposition, financially as wtII as in other ways,from Iceland work or Hake work. Under present conditions,a small trawler on the southern sole and plaice
Ocean research and the great fisheries . bo fco -+3oo r/2. pi? p. 18 THE GREAT FISHERIES 19 Iceland in very dirty weather and filled her with fish till herdecks were awash. Incidentally he sank a U-boat, and (alsoincidentally) was badly holed and himself hit with landed his fish, and won the In the same way it is not as a rule sound business to transfera ship from one squadron to another. North Sea work is quitea different proposition, financially as wtII as in other ways,from Iceland work or Hake work. Under present conditions,a small trawler on the southern sole and plaice grounds, forinstance, will just clear her expenses if she lands £11,000 worthof fish a year ; but a deep-sea vessel will be in debt if she* grosses less than £22,000. A ship is, in fact, the best machinefor the work for which her class was designed. To put her onto other work would be no less injudicious than to order theAquitania into the Bombay trade. All this is laboured to show that each class of fishing is facedwith problems which appear to fishe
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