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“Do you know me, my lord? Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.”—Hamlet. THE exhibition which was opened last Saturday by the Prince of Wales on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen is the latest of a series of such shows of matters relating to fish and fishing apparatus which was initiated by the French at Arcachon, other exhibitions having followed in subsequent years at Amsterdam, at Norwich, at Berlin, and at Edinburgh. Though in this country the accumulated knowledge and experience of scientific zoologists is not made use of either by the Government, or by local authorities, or by private capitalists in order to render our fisheries more productive, or to prevent the total destruction of some branches of them (except in the case of the salmon fisheries), yet the Fisheries Exhibition will have some interest for scientific men and for the readers of NATURE.
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The Fisheries Exhibition . Nature 28, 49–50 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028049a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/028049a0