In the December issue of the Journal of the Marine
Biological Association (Dulau, 3s. 6d. net), the Director, Dr. E. J. Allen, has an instructive paper on " Food from the Sea," which bears out, to some extent, the arguments of Mr. Moreton Frewen in his recent Nineteenth Century article. Dr. Allen states that while young bullocks fed on cultivated land give an annual average yield of seventy-three pounds of beef per acre, the annual catch of fish in an enclosed harbour is eighty-nine pounds per acre, but in the North Sea as a whole the yield is only fifteen pounds of fish per acre. Continental carp ponds have produced ninety-five pounds of fish per acre, and the mussel-beds of Morecambe Bay yield nearly ten thousand pounds per acre. Dr. Allen points out that in 1910 the fish landed in the United Kingdom was nearly equal in value to the total catch of all other European countries. But he thinks that, with the help of scientific research, the harvest of our seas may be increased.
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