Abstract
THE interesting article which we publish in another column (p. 695) is of special importance inasmuch as it is from the pen of a distinguished leader in the investigation of marine plankton and its distribution. As the first occupant of the chair of zoology in University College, Hull, Prof. Hardy has wisely borne in mind its proximity to the great fishing-port of Grimsby, and has directed the policy of his department along lines which, as he believes, will lead towards increased prosperity of the fishing industry. The ingenious apparatus which he has devised for towing behind a moving vessel and registering a continuous record-quantitative and qualitative-of the plankton present along the route traversed is well known to all interested in plankton research, and it may well be that the not distant future will see this apparatus installed as part of the regular equipment of vessels engaged in the fishery of those important food-fish-such as herring, pilchard or mackerel which, subsisting on particular types of plankton, tend naturally to concentrate where their favourite food happens.for the time being to be most abundant.
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Plankton as a Source of Food. Nature 147, 705 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147705b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147705b0