The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries

Stripping Cod at Sea on a Winter Morning.
Fisheries Bureau Spawn-taker aboard a trawler. Note the snow on the rail, the frozen spray on the mast, and the ice on the rigging.
Courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries.
With Fifty-one Illustrations, principally from Bureaus of the United States Government
BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Published, November, 1912
Copyright, 1912, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
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The Boy with the U. S. Fisheries
Norwood Press Berwick and Smith Co. Norwood, Mass. U. S. A.
Treasure-ships, bearing richer cargoes than any galleons that crossed the Spanish Main, still sail over the ocean to-day, but we call them fishing smacks; heroism equal to that of any of the pioneer navigators of old still is found beneath oilskins and a sou'wester, but the heroes give their lives to gain food for the world instead of knowledge; and the thrilling quest of piercing the mysteries of life has no greater fascination than when it seeks to probe the unfathomed depths of that great mistress of mysteries—the Ocean. Just as to save life is greater than to destroy it, so is the true savior of the seas the Fisheries craft, not the battleship; so is the hatchery mightier than the fortress, the net or the microscope a more powerful weapon for good than the torpedo or the Nordenfeldt.