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THE above is the title of a paper by Dr. J. E. Duerden, which, with a series of appendices, has lately been issued as an extra number of the West Indian Bulletin— the official journal of the Imperial Agricultural Department of the West Indies. As read, it formed the leading feature of a recent Congress at Barbados, held under the auspices of the aforenamed Department, at which representatives of all the West Indian Islands were present, and it sets forth in a concise and connected form the essence of all that has transpired in the utilisation for economic purposes of the rich resources of the West Indian seas. In the first part of the paper the fisheries of Jamaica, the Barbados, Bahamas, Leeward Islands, Trinidad, St. Vincent, British Guiana and Honduras are each dealt with in turn, mainly from the statistical standpoint; and then, in descending zoological order, there are treated the principal marine resources from the Mammals to the Sponges. The history of movement of recent years to establish in the West Indies a marine biological station is next fully sketched, and its defence strengthened by a plea based on a comparison of the work achieved by institutions of the desired order existing elsewhere.
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The Marine Resources of the British West Indies . Nature 64, 31–32 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064031a0
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