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IT is well known that at the time of the late Lord Dalhousie's Royal Commission on Sea-Fisheries (1883–85) Prof. McIntosh conducted, for the Commission, a series of most important trawling investigations off the coast of Scotland which formed the starting-point of a good deal of the experimental and observational work of the Fishery Board for Scotland—work which has been noticed from time to time in the columns of NATURE during the last ten or twelve years. The book before us is practically devoted to the summing up of that work and the discussion of its results, and there is no one probably who has a better right to do that than Prof. McIntosh, who, by his trawling investigations in 1884, suggested the experiments of the Board, and who himself may be said to have superintended and controlled the work while acting as scientific member of the Board from 1892 to 1895—when he was succeeded by Sir John Murray. oAll this gives additional importance to the fact that Prof. McIntosh now declares against the policy of the Fishery Board, criticises their methods and their conclusions as published in recent annual reports, and is apparently in favour of removing all restrictions upon fishing, and of throwing the territorial waters open to trawlers and liners alike.
The Resources of the Sea, as shown in the Scientific Experiments to test the Effects of Trawling and of the Closure of certain Areas off the Scottish Shores.
By W. C. McIntosh, &c. Pp. xvi + 248, and Tables. (London: Clay and Sons, 1899.)
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HERDMAN, W. The Resources of the Sea, as shown in the Scientific Experiments to test the Effects of Trawling and of the Closure of certain Areas off the Scottish Shores. Nature 59, 602–604 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059602a0
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