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Show FRENCH SClExNTISTS STUDY FISHIING. 1 III" average person tucks bis fishing fl! de oier bis shoulder and fl,es off w to forget serious matters, but thu 1 reach government Is now busily study-'"-' fl-hlug from a scleotlile noiidpolut. The fbih which la now being pored over by scientists In tbo toothsome aurdlne. Oir the I'.rlttaoy Coast for ccuturles Ibe r'rviirh tiherfolk have caogbt aardlnes bT the milliards. But lately tbe sardine ha ehown hlm-Mf hlm-Mf a wonderer, aud 10 yeara ago th Cshl.ig ludustry In Brittany found that the old feeding grounds wern almost de-eil,i. de-eil,i. Thonsnods of fnmllles left the district, core t uillls or Hsu fattorlc were eloped up and many Onus lulled ill business. Isst seuson tbe (jsh icliirned lo Ihe nt'ltlanr fields lu n.llllous. Thy were so plentiful that the few factories that bad stuck to the pi ice counl handle only n small proportion of the catch. The prb-e obtained by the fMiermen went down until they got less thnn tbe cost Of the bftlt ii"ie,j In catching the snr-dlum. snr-dlum. Ah u result the French government govern-ment has sent half a dor.cn spevhtlly trained men of science to study the slln-ntlon slln-ntlon od to try nnd discover If there Is aDy way of attracting the lU-lb-ioi: sr-illnes sr-illnes annually to the llrlitaoy Hi Ids. The biit Informed tpluloa dteuui to Le thai ; Ihe fish left tho Brittany banks because the. feeding g;ouuds were badly deputed, and that they have returned n l l-r li'i years of absence because lu the meantime tbe food supply there ba once nguln become be-come tiuflk'b nt. The French governmcnf hofies to learn about this, and v.UI attempt to Dfc m-hii. HCc methods In keeping up the food h,,I(. My In tbe waters o thq rjsh will alw.iy, return thcn. Another svgicillon h that lertaln ocean currents affect the move-nieul move-nieul of the vunt shoals of aardlnes, Mlf Ihe food theory Is the one ,y mnjorlty of rclentlsts who have klu Ji,.,j Ihic UiatUT. |
