Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

Aa. Rupsinel Fra. 81. At the wharves in Gloucester, the former center of the fishing industry of the United States, thousands of tons of fish are landed vearly. As a fishing citv Boston now outranks Moucester CHAPTER EIGHT FISHERIES Fisuing is the only form of primary production that takes men away from the land and out on the waters of seas, rivers, and lakes. Although fishing adds to the variety and abundance of man’s food, the fishing industry is more interesting than important. In the United States, in 1919, among a thousand working people 290, on the average, were engaged in primary production. Of these, 258 were Farmers, 26 were miners, 5 were lumbermen, and only one was a fisher- man. In our country, therefore, fishermen are the least numerous of the primary producers. Moreover, the total yearly catch of fish is worth less than one of the minor crops, such as barley or tobacco. In countries like Norway, however, where the surface is rugged, the soil poor, and the coastline irregular, people turn to the sea for much of their food, and fishing is one of the chief industries. Fishing an industry of the north temperate zone. Although food fish are found in all oceans, the kinds most highly prized thrive in the cool waters of the north temperate zone. Furthermore, the total amount of life in the oceans is actually much greater in high latitudes 102

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