It has been calculated that, as fish produce so many eggs, if
vast numbers of the latter and of the fish themselves were not
continually destroyed and taken they would soon fill up every
available space in the seas. For instance, from 60,000,000
to 70,000,000 codfish are annually caught on the shores of
Newfoundland. But even that quantity seems small when it is
considered that each cod yields about 4,500,000 eggs every
season, and that even 8,000,000 have been found in the roe of
a single cod. Were the 60,000,000 cod taken on the coast of
Newfoundland left to breed, the 30,000,000 females producing
5,000,000 eggs every year, it would give a yearly addition of
150,000,000,000,000 young codfish.--_Public Opinion._
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=Destructive Criticism=--See SATIRE.