Production of Freshwater Fish in Palestine

Abstract

IN his article on the “Freshwater Fisheries in the British Colonial Empire”1, Dr. E. B. Worthington stresses the importance of freshwater fish production, but points out that in many parts of the Empire the fresh waters are being neglected. Taking Lake Victoria as an example, he estimates the production of fish in this great tropical lake to be only about 1.4 lb. per acre per year. This “ridiculously small” figure he compares with the North Sea which produces about 15 lb. per acre per year, and explains that in Lake Victoria only the fish of the inshore waters are taken, while the main mass of the water, 26,800 square miles in area, but less than 270 ft. in depth, is left undeveloped and unexploited.