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I SHALL, without apology, introduce a controversial topic/ and endeavour to maintain a view which I myself hold with conviction. That view, expressed in the simplest terms, is that scientific investigations of fisheries are primarily a matter for the State, and can, as a whole, be most successfully conducted by a Government Department charged with responsibility for fishery matters. I believe—and I may say that, in a general sense, it is the view of the Department of State I have the honour to represent—that a Department of Fisheries which does not conduct such investigations is, ipso facto, unfitted for the work it has to do and might as well cease to exist, and that in many respects the State is better placed for the purpose than a semi-private institution.
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MAURICE, H. Science and Fisheries. Nature 106, 419–421 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106419a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106419a0