The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . HE Austrian fisheries partake of the character of our coastfisheries and the petite peche of the French, and they arecarried on in the manner and with the appliances in usemany centuries ago. The political condition of affairs onthe Adriatic shores has necessarily cast its shadow on thestate of the fisheries. The constant change of rulers up towithin the last sixty-five years impeded the organisationand consolidation of the
The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . HE Austrian fisheries partake of the character of our coastfisheries and the petite peche of the French, and they arecarried on in the manner and with the appliances in usemany centuries ago. The political condition of affairs onthe Adriatic shores has necessarily cast its shadow on thestate of the fisheries. The constant change of rulers up towithin the last sixty-five years impeded the organisationand consolidation of the country, and no thought was given, under suchcircumstances, to the regulation of fisheries, or to other economical measuresof still greater importance. Even the long period of peace which followedthe Treaty of Vienna, by which the Dalmatian coast, increased by Ragusa,once more reverted to Austria, proved of small avail to the newly-acquiredprovinces; there was a total want of union and consciousness of identity ofinterests with the rest of the Empire. On account of its poverty, the country was looked upon in the light. V ,iSA AND THE FISH THEREOF. 41 of a burden,1 as in the clays of Charlemagne, when the conquest of I stria,Liburnia, and Dalmatia is described by Gibbon as an easy though un-profitable acquisition. A civil or military appointment to any post in Dalmatiawas considered a banishment, as it is indeed even now. Thus, all interestin these provinces was nipped in the bud, and the brilliant history of Veniceand Ragusa was entirely It is not until very recently, and under the present reign, that the impulsehas been given to deal with the existing order of things. Politically speaking,progress has been urged by the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, theacquisition of which had become almost a question of political existence toDalmatia. This shore-land, although in the possession of the finest naturalharbours in the Mediterranean, and thus pre-eminently adapte
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