Parliamentary Papers, Volume 15H.M. Stationery Office, 1894 - Great Britain |
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Page 112
... spat at exactly the same seasons as the the British ones ? -Exactly in every way . 2494. Is it the case that British oysters are sold during the close season , under the pretext that they are foreign ones . Is the real true native ever ...
... spat at exactly the same seasons as the the British ones ? -Exactly in every way . 2494. Is it the case that British oysters are sold during the close season , under the pretext that they are foreign ones . Is the real true native ever ...
Page 113
... spat of brood like we had 30 years ago we should be loth to touch any relaid oysters of any description . 2521. Then these oysters you import are for the purpose of filling up the beds and breeding , are they ? —No , not breeding ...
... spat of brood like we had 30 years ago we should be loth to touch any relaid oysters of any description . 2521. Then these oysters you import are for the purpose of filling up the beds and breeding , are they ? —No , not breeding ...
Page 114
... spat from them , on account of the climatic conditions being unfavourable . I am obliged to you for putting that because I am able to clear it up . I did not mean that it damaged the ground in any form . 2549. Then although you think it ...
... spat from them , on account of the climatic conditions being unfavourable . I am obliged to you for putting that because I am able to clear it up . I did not mean that it damaged the ground in any form . 2549. Then although you think it ...
Page 115
... spats every year in English waters , but whether that spat comes to maturity or not entirely depends upon whether the climatic conditions are favourable . But as to sickening and spatt- ing , that is throwing out the young oyster ( that ...
... spats every year in English waters , but whether that spat comes to maturity or not entirely depends upon whether the climatic conditions are favourable . But as to sickening and spatt- ing , that is throwing out the young oyster ( that ...
Page 116
... spat , in 1889 . 2589. But you have been dependent on those two years ever since , have you ? -Yes , on the 1887 fall of spat ; the 1889 have not come to maturity yet . 2590. In 1887 , did the British oyster also spat freely ? -- We had ...
... spat , in 1889 . 2589. But you have been dependent on those two years ever since , have you ? -Yes , on the 1887 fall of spat ; the 1889 have not come to maturity yet . 2590. In 1887 , did the British oyster also spat freely ? -- We had ...
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areas Board of Trade boats Brixham Buchanan bye-laws capture catch cent Chairman Chairman-continued close season Colonel Cotton-Jodrell Commander Bethell district east coast evidence experience fact favour fish caught fishermen Fishery Board fishing grounds flat fish foreign oysters Fraserburgh French oysters Galway Galway Bay Grimsby haddock harbour Harry Foster haul Heneage Hull immature fish increase Irish June Kearley Lancashire landing and sale large number lemon soles Lord George Hamilton Lowestoft mackerel Major Jones Mallock MARJORIBANKS mesh miles Moray Firth nets North Sea not?-Yes not?—Yes opinion Peterhead plaice practically present prohibition proposed quantity question regard regulations Robert Price round fish sailing trawlers Scotch Fishery Scotland sea fishery committees sea police seine net shrimp Sir Albert Rollit smacks small fish small plaice spat spawn steam trawlers suggest suppose territorial waters throw tion trawling turbot undersized fish vessels young fish
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Page vi - The skin, hung up by the nose, measured 10 feet 2 inches, from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and was sold for seven shillings and sixpence in the common course of business.
Page 6 - Trade, by or on behalf of the servants, or any class of the servants, of a railway company, that the hours of labour of those servants, or of that class, or, in any special case, of any particular servants engaged in working the traffic...
Page 6 - If it is represented to the board of trade, by or on behalf of the servants, or any class of the servants, of a railway company...
Page vi - Orders of The House, examined the matters to them referred; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Page vi - ... or fishermen, whether scientific experts or statisticians, there seems to be no doubt that a considerable diminution has occurred amongst the more valuable classes of flat fish, especially among soles and plaice, and that, this diminution must be attributed to over-fishing by trawlers in certain localities.
Page 6 - ... of any particular servants engaged in working the traffic, on any part of the lines of the company, are excessive, or do not provide sufficient intervals of uninterrupted rest between the periods of duty, or sufficient relief in respect of Sunday duty, the Board of Trade shall inquire into the representation.
Page 112 - A person shall not sell, expose for sale, consign for sale, or buy for sale, — (1.) Any oysters known at the passing of this Act in the oyster trade as " deep-sea
Page xiv - ... but when we turn to the great fishing grounds of the North Sea, if your Committee is to rely on the evidence which has been laid before them by all persons interested in the fisheries, whether trawlers or linesmen, whether...
Page xv - ... waters immediately adjacent to the various countries are concerned, on those various countries ; that, for the effective realisation of this object, the present territorial limit of three miles is insufficient, and that, for fishery purposes alone, this limit should be extended, provided such extension can be effected upon an international basis, and with due regard to the rights and interests of all nations. Your Committee would earnestly recommend that a proposition on these lines should be...
Page 215 - I do not know that I can add anything to what has been already said in the text of the Lecture on this point.