Show seldom or never has the enormous importance of the harvest of t the he sa been more forcibly re represented presente d than it was b by y professor huxley in the address which he delivered it at the international fisheries exhibition some years ago an acre of good fishing ground he pointed out will yield more food in a week than an acre of 0 the best land vill fi in a year still more vivid was his picture of the guv moving ing mountain of code cod to led feet in height which for or two m months in the year amov moves es westward and southward past the norwegian coast every 3 square q aare mile of this colonial col column of offish fish contains one hundred and twenty million fish consuming every week when on short rations no fewer than eight hundred and forty million herrings the whole catch of the norwegian fisheries fah er ies never exceeds in a year vear more than hall half a square mile of this mountain of cod and one weeks supply of the herrings needed to keep that chat area of cod from stat starving ving london might be supplied with herring for 01 a year en ca a days consumption of the count countless leis shoals of uncaught cod |