fishery quotes

Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.

-Defoe, Daniel
^7  Of Kirkcudbright, Scotland.  A  Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter12.

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