...great Frenchman's assertion in different language, as if to verify ma literal sense the proverb, " There are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it." But the note of alarm sounded by Mr. John Cleghorn, who, in 1854, read a paper on the " Fluctuations...

...and ultimately foil through, the projectors consoling themselves with the axiomatic reflection — that there are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it. But while I am rummaging among the dusty corners of my memory, and dragging forth worm-eaten old books...

...efforts were made to check certain supposed reckless modes of fishing. In spite of the old proverb,' There are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it,' certain misgivings have, not unnaturally, arisen in the minds of some who have paid attention to this...

...manner of strange creatures, such as human eyes have never seen, for there is no truer proverb than that "There are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it." There are miles and miles of gray-green weed and emerald moss where the sea cows and sea horses find...

...upon the almost universal testimony of the fishermen,confirmed by the result of Professor M'Intosb/s observations. As regards the soles, the evidence was...use of any method of fishing, or to the want of a close -time for any species of fish, or to any other cause, there is an undoubted diminution in that...

...the careful consideration of the Government. Up to the present time all sea-fishery legislation h:ii been based upon the theory that there are more fish in the sea tha:: ever came out of it. In the light of this axiom, all methods of sea-fishing have been free, and...

...with prairie blizzards. IL/ated air succeeds iced water. Every lavish, copious phrase — such as " There are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it" — applies to it, and helps to describe, or at least suggest, the marvellous fecundity, the countless...

...feel certain even about the fish that swallowed Jonah, when they had no test except the very true one that there are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it. Logically they would find it quite as hard to draw the line at the miraculous draught of fishes. I...

...We cannot await co-operntion on the part of the fish for our food supply. Though it micrht be said that there are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it, we cpnnot await the co-operatio-i of the fish: and it is very gratifying to note that improved methods...

...sustainable level, and after a steady rise between 1950 and 1989, they are now falling. The old adage that 'there are more fish in the sea than ever came out of it' is no longer true, and world food production is being undermined by mis-use. According to FAO all 17...