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

Fisheries 108 than in low. It follows naturally that fishing, as an industry, is of most importance in the north temperate zone. Additional reasons for the greater development of the industry in the cool regions are the less abundant supplies of food on land, and the fact that it is less difficult to preserve fish in cool weather. In high latitudes the fish that are most prized live in shallow waters where food is abundant. Hence numerous bays, shoals, and banks along the northwestern and especially the northeastern coasts of the United States are the great fishing grounds of the country. ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES The greatest fishing region in the world is on the banks, or shal- lows, that extend from near the Massachusetts coast northeast to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Here the ships of many nations — the United States, Norway, England, France, Portugal, and other countries — share the rich harvest of the sea. Each country has exclusive fishing privileges within three miles of its own shores. Beyond this limit, fishing is free to all. Cod fishing on the Grand Banks. A good way to understand the fisherman's life is to board a schooner at Boston or Gloucester, and go to the Grand Banks with the fishermen. Arriving at the Banks, about the middle of June, the crew of fifteen or twenty men lower into Fic. 82. The great commercial fishing areas of the world are: (1) the northeastern coast of North America; (2) the seas of northeastern Europe — the North Sea, the sea between Norway and Iceland, the Baltic Sea; (3) the northwestern coast of North America. Areas of secondary importance are (1) the Japanese coasts; (2) the Mediterranean Sea: (3) the Adriatic; (4) the Caspian; (5) the White Sea. Fishing is of great importance in many places where the product does not enter into commerce, as along the coast of China and throughout the tropical islands of the world ;: in these localities fish are sold in the local markets almost as soon as they are caught.

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