Cape Cod, new & old . y seven-? teen hundred species are listed from Vineyard ^ Sound and Buzzards Bay, and the marineplants are correspondingly numerous. Thereis something that reminds one of a Greek fablein this community of studious and yet socialmen and women, spending the summer on the FALMOUTH THE PROSPEROUS 215 3 shore of a classic coast, working diligently tosolve the question of general habits and dis- /tribution of fish; the regulatioflrand conserva- ^tiorfof the fisheries; the investigation of fish--4^ery by-products; the extraction of oils and >,f • »gelatins^Jrom the waste prod
Cape Cod, new & old . y seven-? teen hundred species are listed from Vineyard ^ Sound and Buzzards Bay, and the marineplants are correspondingly numerous. Thereis something that reminds one of a Greek fablein this community of studious and yet socialmen and women, spending the summer on the FALMOUTH THE PROSPEROUS 215 3 shore of a classic coast, working diligently tosolve the question of general habits and dis- /tribution of fish; the regulatioflrand conserva- ^tiorfof the fisheries; the investigation of fish--4^ery by-products; the extraction of oils and >,f • »gelatins^Jrom the waste products; and the 7effect of various industrial water pollutions on 5economic marine animals. What more fitting place for such a study V*than here, where for hundreds of years thecommunity made its living^ frorn the labor ofthose earlier devotees of ocean life — thosebronzed sea captains and sturdy fishermenand all the goodly crew of Cape Cod mariners,who, like those other ancients, went down \^to the sea in ships?.
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