Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-03 | Page 8 | Fishing the Ocean Empty?

I Fishing the Ocean Empty EAT AT more fi fish hl 1 has been the cry of the food economists for some time with the result that today the worlds world's annual fish harvest amounts to pounds of fist fish fishlIn In the United States the annual catch is over pounds Two hundred thousand fishermen man the odd dd fishing vessels vessels' whose tonnage is But Lewis Lewis' Radcliffe United States Deputy Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Bureau of Fisheries tells us the fish are becoming scarcer scarce I I Our shad catch has fallen from over pounds in 1896 to at the present time sturgeon from in 1890 to lobster from in 1889 to and oysters from bushels to bushels Intensive trawling operations are blamed Jamed i i l W 5 it