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IT is common knowledge that the trawl fisheries have mainly been unprofitable for many years and that the number of British fishermen has been reduced by about thirty per cent since 1919. Some of this decline is due to loss of herring fishermen ; and this article is not concerned with that section of the industry. Part of the reduction is due to loss of trawler hands and inshore fishermen and, so far as these sections of the industry are concerned, recent scientific work has a very practical bearing, and leads to a comprehensive statement on the conditions under which the industry can be permanently profitable or unprofitable.
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GRAHAM, M. The Trawl Fisheries: a Scientific and National Problem. Nature 142, 1143–1146 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421143a0
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