Identifier: newfoundlandatbe00harv (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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On the Hnmber—Flat Bay, Brook Bay, St. George.
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On the Humber. 46 NEWFOUNDLAND. small number, comparatively of Newfoundland vessels, takepart in the Bank fishery. In 1896 there were employed in thisfishery forty-eight vessels, tonnage 2,652, and 616 men. Although, in many localities, there have been in recentyears, symptoms of declining cod fisheries, such as give gravereason for anxiety, yet the natural conditions are such that thesea harvest can never entirely fail, though it varies greatly,being dependent on winds and weather. The cod is a local fish,and in its migrations passes from the deep waters where itwinters, to the shallower and warmer waters near the shorefor spawning purposes. The danger lies in over-fishing anylocality and taking immature fish before they have reached thereproductive stage. Implements of a deadly and destructivenature are too often used, such as bultows, and also nets withsmall meshes which destroy the young fish. Close seasons alsoare not carefully observed. All these injure the cod fishing, sothat n

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