THE GREAT FISHERIES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 225, 19 June 1929, Page 9

THE GREAT FISHERIES

WORK OF INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL.

Among the many words which have enriched the English vocabulary since the war, few have lately become more familiar than “rationalisation,” which, roughly, defines a method of developing to its utmost the productive capacity of any given industry. The meeting in London of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea is a reminder that this principle of rationalisation has been applied for nearly 30 years to mankind’s use of one of the most important sources of his-food, says the “Daily Telegraph." In land industry rationalisation pools the resources of a number of firms engaged in the same trade; in the great industry of the sea it claims the close co-opera-tion of 15 national Governments. It was in 1902 that the International Council took form, “to promote the rational exploitation of the sea,” by getting the most out of it with the least effort and cost, and without prejudice to its future stock In that year only nine countries were represented—Great Britain. Norway. Sweden. Denmark. Holland. Belgium. Russia, Finland, and. Germany. This year’s meeting was attended also by delegates from France, the Irish Free State. Italy. Latvia. Poland, Portugal and Spain. The research is international, not only because the field is so wide, but also because all the fishing of any importance is carried on in international waters. Therefore if. as the result of these investigations, any measures are to be taken for the development of the fisheries, whether in the form of the protection of the fish or the actual development of the supply, they must be carried out internationally.