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THIS report presents the results of the latest of a long series of inquiries into the productivity and administration of the British Sea Fisheries. In many ways it is the most important document of its kind presented to Parliament during the last twenty years. Former fishery inquiries usually considered the fishing industry as it is carried on on the high seas, and international questions so greatly complicated any possible action, both with regard to scientific investigation and administration, that might have been taken that little in the way of legislation resulted from them. The Committee now reporting was appointed little more than a year ago; it has considered domestic, rather than international fishery matters; and there is every indication that its utterance represents an official desire for legislative action. Altogether the recommendations are of greater significance than those of any Committee or Commission since 1885.
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J., J. The Reorganisation of the Fishery Authorities 1 . Nature 93, 324–325 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093324a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/093324a0