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MARVELOUS NORTH SEA FISH Industry of Catching Them Able to Produce 450 000000 Each Tear That tlie government will have to pay serious attention to the development of the North Sea fish ¬ eries as soon as the war is finished is the view of food erperts erpertsIt It is pointed out that they offer a great oppor ¬ tunity of solving the home food problem at a time when cereals and meat will be inadequate for the needs of the countries emerging from the shortage created by the war warNot Not more than onesixth of the sea meadows lias been fished regularly Mr Neal Green points out in his book The Fisheries of the North Sea Properly organized the industry is able to produce 8450000000 worth of food per annum Before the war we obtained fish to the value of only 150 00 000 000The The total fishing area is about 300000 square miles rather more than twice the size of the Brit ¬ ish Isles The capital expended by the different countries Great Britain Norway Holland Den ¬ mark and Germanv in this industry might be es ¬ timated roughly at 250000000 says 3Ir Green which is inadequate in view of what might ha done if the opportunities were fully exploited exploitedIn In England there is remarkably little invested in the shore industries Taking the possible output of 450000000 in this area of 300000 square miles we get about 1500 value of fish per square mile fished per annum or 250 an acre whereas prior to the war this was only about 500 per square mile or si little over 65 cents an acre acreTaking Taking an annual output of 450000000 Mr Green goes on to say as being not only possible but highly probable as soon as peace comes we get if capitalized on a twenty vears purchase value the sum of 5800000000 or 50 per acre as being the capital value of the fisheries in these northern seas seasAnd And yet this valuable source of food supply is receiving hardly and attention from our government Talking governmentTalking of the poor mans dish the herring which of all fish is the highest in food value Mr Green gives some interesting facts The increase of the fish is almost incalculable An average 100 iu spawning season will deposit 4000000 eggs Collectively eggsCollectively the British herring fleet when fishing uses 1000 miles of nets these are arranged so that the herring runs into the wall of the nets Iu a single season 3000000000 herrings are landed in the British Isles alone This quantity is only u tiny fraction of the simply in the ocean
