...as an article of food, the supply immense, the source inexhaustible, its positive worth, " an amount of human food equal to little less than a million of money drawn forth annually from the waters," obtained at moderate cost, giving employment to thousands of adventurous, hard-working, honest men,...

...attention to the domain of the waters, from which the fishermen of the British Islands draw an amount of human food equal to little less than a million of money ; a sum capable of indefinite enlargement, if those interested in fisheries will only combine to protect...