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MAY I call your attention to the wholesale destruction of young fish which is carried on to a great extent round our coast? A few facts may not be out of place. Recently I have been visiting a small fishing village on the east coast, and have carefully noted the amount of young fish rejected by the fishermen on their return from trawling and shrimping. For example, from 4¼ pecks of shrimps no less than 793 flat-fish (dabs, soles, and turbots) were thrown on the beach useless; to this must be added about 200 whiting and an amount of young cod, herring, and skate beyond my power to count. Surely something can be done to remedy this! It is well known to the fishermen that the net does not injure the fish; so that before landing, if the net was roughly examined, all young fish could be thrown into the water again.
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WILSON-BARKER, D. Destruction of Young Fish. Nature 36, 557 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036557a0
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