The British Columbia fisheries

Summary: "Grant (1934)¹ and Innis (1940)² had already tackled, and with considerable success, the story of the fisheries of our maritime provinces of the East, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, with Quebec somewhat in the background. Moreover, prior to the publication of this colume on British Columbia Fisheries, Carrothers contributed to the story of the maritime fisheries as co-author with Innis of The Atlantic Fishing Industry. No comprehensive study had, however, been undertaken of the Pacific fisheries of Canada, which are all located in British Columbia, and Carrothers's book fills a long-felt need. Research in the story of fisheries is long and arduous, too long and too arduous for the ordinary professor of economics. Even the teacher of fishing economics, saddled with many lectures to deliver, has not enough time to peruse all the scattered sources of information. He needs on his shelves a good summary, comprehensive and complete, from which he can draw at will. This appears to be what Mr. Carrothers has aimed at and what he has succeeded in giving. He has chosen to deal with his subject by individual fisheries, rather than by epochs or trends. This was simpler and easier and more consistent with the proposed goal. Monographs on different fisheries, however, give a rather loose-linked book, but the very good introduction written by Mr. Innis compensates for this more apparent than real lack of sequence. (¹Grant Ruth Fulton, The Canadian Atlantic Fisheries. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1934. ²H. A. Innis, The Cod Fisheries. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940.)"--