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Madras Fisheries Bureau. Bulletin No. 9. Fishery Statistics and Information

1916

V. Govindan, B. A. , Assistant Director of the Department, whose personal knowledge of the fisher-folk and their circumstances and whose interest in them and their development specially fitted him for the work. [...] The necessity first for laborious compilation from the rather obscure and often imperfect-note-books and then for personal verification and amplification of the records has caused much delay in the production of this Bulletin since it was first taken up by order of Government in 1914. [...] In Great Britain (excluding Ireland) the Fishery Departments are chiefly statistical and regulative and not industrial (except in the one matter of crown brands for Scotch herring), just because the men engaged in the direct fishing and allied industries not only know their own business and interests most thoroughly but have initiative in the highest possible degree, and are infinitely better acqu [...] First, our fishing industry is in the most primitive condition quite undeve- loped in any of the modern methods and allied industries, bound by custom and ignorance, and entirely without initiative in new departures ; it is the Government officers only who have a larger knowledge and a certain degree of initiative, and it is, at present, for them to lead the industry and the men, as has been done [...] Secondly, the collection of statistics except of almost fixed and of readily visible and ascertainable matters (such as the population, number of boats, etc. ) is almost impossible here, and the statistics, if collected, would be of little value and probably misleading, while the collection, costly in itself, would cause the worst suspi- cions among the fisher-folk who have never yet been taxed.
commerce industry
Pages
142
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100021
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii V. Govindan view
Introduction
1-4 F.A. Nicholson view
Statistics Relating to West Coast
5-62 V. Govindan view
Statistics Relating to East Coast
63-140 V. Govindan view

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