L'état actuel de la question de l'appauvrissement des fonds de pêche

During the last Marine Fisheries Congress, held in Paris in 1931, I had the chance to explain, in front of the audience, the issue of the impoverishment of the fishing grounds. This issue was far from being new to the biologists and even to the professionals, but it was, at the time, particularly true: WWI had indeed enabled a repopulation of the fishing grounds usually frequented by fishermen from different nations, and the period which followed, from 1919 to 1925, had been particularly productive thanks to the abundance of fishes and especially large fishes. [...]