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for every fisherman who takes the complete course. The amount 

 contributed in this way is Kr. 1 5 per head per month. The fisher- 

 man student has also to pay a fee in addition, amounting usually 

 to Kr. 20 per month. The course is held in the winter when work 

 at sea is slack. In each school there is but one teacher ; any man 

 with the requisite qualifications may be appointed, such as a 

 retired sea-captain, a harbour master or a pilot. The aim is to run 

 the school as cheaply as possible, compatible with efficiency. 

 Usually the teacher has some other calling or is a pensioner. 



Motor instruction is run on similar lines. 



The department has charge also of the registration of fishing 

 boats. The law provides that all over 6 metres in length must be 

 registered and numbered and have their port letter inscribed 

 conspicuously on the bows. The initial registration is current so 

 long as the boat remains in the same ownership, all that is 

 incumbent upon the owner being to keep the marks and numbers 

 in good order. If sold or the name changed, the certificate must 

 be submitted for alteration. 



The Norwegians, curiously enough, did not register and number 

 their fishing boats until last year, when under the law of 5th Dec- 

 ember 1917, all fishing boats other than small open boats must 

 carry distinguishing numbers and port letters. No fee is charged 

 for registration. 



This short and very incomplete note on Danish fishery organiza- 

 tion cannot be closed without reference being made to the wonder- 

 fully useful "Yearbook of the Danish Fishing Fleet " edited by 

 Mr. F. V. Mortensen, the Director of Fisheries. Outside of England, 

 I know of no fisherman's handbook so useful as this. The fund 

 of information contained is extremly well-chosen and extensive, 

 ranging from a list of all registered fishing boats in Denmark 

 with their number, tonnage, motor h.p. and ownership, to a poly- 

 glot list of the names of all common food fishes in six languages, 

 or seven if we count the scientific name, which is also given. The 

 laws on boat insurance, boat registration, State loans, and similar 

 special enactments of interest to fishermen are given in full, to- 

 gether with particulars of all coast lights, harbour regulations and 

 so on, far too numerous to catalogue here. The index of subjects 

 contains 124 items and the little book— it is a small octavo of 

 7 X 4}/2 inches — runs to 388 pages; from this something of the 

 extent of information contained may be inferred. 



