Treasures of the Sea.
Some idea of the inexhaustible treasures ot the sea may bo gathered from Professor Huxley's lecture at the Fisheries Exhibition. He states the astounding fact that a shoal of cod was usually from 120 to 1 8* i feet deep, and contained 120,000,000 fish in a square mile. In other words, one single shoal contains more fish than the whole of the Norwegian fishermen catch in two years. This one shoal of cod will consume every week, at the very least, 840 millions of herrings, a supply that would victual London with herrings for a year. Another interesting fact which Professor Huxley mentioned was that an acre of good fishing ground will yield more food in a week than an acre of land will do in a year.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 43, 13 September 1883, Page 3
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