Chamberss Miscellany of Instructive Entertaining Tracts volume 2
Chamberss Miscellany of Instructive Entertaining Tracts volume 2
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The fleet of boats engaged in the herring-fishery is twice as great as it was fifty years ago, and the netting of each boat has been doubled ; but the capture is far from keeping pace with this increase of apparatus and labour. In the year 1820, the Wick fleet numbered 004, and each boat had on an average 148 crans ; in 1868, there were 983 boats, and the average was only 44^ crans.
Opinions are divided as to the cause of this falling-off in the pro- ductiveness of the herring-fields. One set o...f economists attribute it to 4 over-fishing, ' which is actually, they think, exhausting and breaking up the shoals. Others laugh at this as a mere baseless theory, and an absurd one too. They hold that the shoals are so vast, that it is impossible for man to make any impression on them though he were to multiply his machinery of capture tenfold, and maintain that herrings are as plentiful in the sea as ever, only that they are more difficult to find. The other side reply, that the admitted fact of the fish becoming more and more difficult to find, is a proof that man is making an impression of some kind on the shoals ; and that to hold that the fish are not diminished in numbers is a gratuitous assump- tion.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The fleet of boats engaged in the herring-fishery is twice as great as it was fifty years ago, and the netting of each boat has been doubled ; but the capture is far from keeping pace with this increase of apparatus and labour. In the year 1820, the Wick fleet numbered 004, and each boat had on an average 148 crans ; in 1868, there were 983 boats, and the average was only 44^ crans.
Opinions are divided as to the cause of this falling-off in the pro- ductiveness of the herring-fields. One set o...f economists attribute it to 4 over-fishing, ' which is actually, they think, exhausting and breaking up the shoals. Others laugh at this as a mere baseless theory, and an absurd one too. They hold that the shoals are so vast, that it is impossible for man to make any impression on them though he were to multiply his machinery of capture tenfold, and maintain that herrings are as plentiful in the sea as ever, only that they are more difficult to find. The other side reply, that the admitted fact of the fish becoming more and more difficult to find, is a proof that man is making an impression of some kind on the shoals ; and that to hold that the fish are not diminished in numbers is a gratuitous assump- tion.
What to read after Chamberss Miscellany of Instructive Entertaining Tracts volume 2?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by William Chambers to read onlineMoreLess
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