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MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN 



VOL. XIV, 



societies are utilized in the davelopment of the country's fisheries, 

 the following list is provided of societies, together with the 

 amounts of grants-in-aid recommended by the Director of Fisheries 

 to Government for the year Jq20-2I, viz. : — 



Items amounting to Kr. 11,400 were eventually deducted and 

 the net sum finally voted by Parliament was Kr. 93,700. This 

 grant as I have stated above is made upon the specific condition 

 that each society shall raise in its own district by voluntary and 

 communal contribution a sum amounting to not less than 25 per 

 cent of the sum granted by Government. 



The aims of the various societies necessarily vary with local 

 requirements. Among these, besides those already mentioned 

 when surveying the scope of work of the Bergen Society, the most 

 frequently recurring are items for instructional courses in naviga- 

 tion and in motor technique, the encouragement of the inshore 

 fisheries by open-boat fishermen, the upkeep of reading rooms 

 for seamen and fishermen, and grants to communal and other 



