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AFTER some six months of the war we can attempt to make estimates of its effects upon British industries, and anticipations of the future, with some degree of confidence. This is fairly easy with respect to the fisheries: the industry is being closely studied, and, unlike most, it is the object of both scientific and statistical investigation. The situation at present is one of extraordinary interest, even fron a strictly scientific point of view. The enormous restrictions on fishery constitute (unhappily) an experiment on the grand scale, and since the scientific study of the industry has not altogether been allowed to drop interesting results should be forthcoming. The statistics of the next year or two will be of much value, in showing to what extent commercial exploitation of the North Sea depletes the natural resources of that fishing area. Amidst the distractions of the present time this question is not being neglected.
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J., J. The Sea Fisheries and the War . Nature 94, 709–710 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/094709a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/094709a0