Excerpt from West African Fisheries: With Particular Reference to the Gold Coast Colony
In explanation of my acceptance of the invitation of the Executive Committee of the International Fisheries Exhibition to write a Paper on "West African Fisheries, with particular reference to the Gold Coast Colony," I must ask to be allowed to preface what follows by an acknowledgment, of the fact that whatever knowledge of the subject I may possess is confined mostly to the breakfast and dinner table; and I am doubtful whether in my shallowness or taste I am an exception.
When I ventured to undertake this Paper, it naturally first occurred to look about for information, and to thus endeavour to reap a harvest on the brains of others; but to my inquiry of unscientific and worldly friends as to what they knew of the fish fauna, the invariable answer I received was - "At present, my dear fellow, cod is in season," or some like communication. "As regards that awful place West Africa, comparatively nothing has been written, for the general belief is that even fish won't live there."
Now, on the contrary, much has been written.
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