Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1908 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1908 The increase in the importance of the commercial fisheries is not by any means a local matter, but is general throughout nearly the whole world, witness the development of fisheries along the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards of the United States and Canada, the organization of the federation among the nations of northern Europe into a board of international fisheries, and the paramount fishing industry of Japan. Better organization, new and more effective methods, knowledge of the habits and movements of fishes, increasing facilities for distribution to markets, and the corresponding greater demand for fish food, and the realization of the immense possibilities of the fisheries in increasing the world's food supply are all factors in the development of this growing industry. Within our own waters, some idea of the increase in the commercial fisheries during the past ten years can be obtained from a summary of the yearly census which your Commission has compiled regarding the number of fish traps set within the Bay and in the waters im mediately outside. Leaving out of account the Block Island traps, the data are as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.