CAN THE SEA BE FISHED OUT?
Mr R. B. Marston answers this question in the Nineteenth Century in tho negative. Evory second in every month, in every day of the year, more fish are produced in the sea than all humanity combined could devour in the same time. Dr Hjort has proved that these are great quantities of edible fish in the ocean depths where it was believed that no fish could live. A year ago it was thought impossible that the young of cod, haddock, cod-fish, and whiting could live out in the open I sea, but Dr Hjorl has demolished this theory, and proved that there are many million times more young fish in tbe sea than we have any idea of. In his article he mentions two curious facts — one, that within the last year or two a countless army of octopuses has I advanced along the northern const of France, and has absolutely destroyed — for a time, at least — the crab and ! lobster fisheries. The other fact he mentions is that tho annual harvest of the North Sea in fish is estimated at eight millions sterling, of which more than one-half is reaped by Englishmen.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7363, 15 January 1902, Page 4
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