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description) ; this was apparently selected because sardines are abund- 

 ant there, and the canning of sardines was a primary object of 

 experiment. The second station was in Hiroshima, a district famous 

 for its oysters and oyster culture was therefore a principal object of 

 station experiment. Similarly each station is devoted to experiment 

 in the particular industries or methods of the locality, which is 

 selected on a consideration of its importance, and experiment is 

 directed to the discovery and counteraction of defects and to the 

 instruction by practical teaching of new methods or implements ; iu 

 other words, the objects were : (1) the conduct of experiments in 

 improvements, (2) the dissemination of such improvements. 



26. The following branches of the industry are especially dealt 

 with : (I) Capture of fish, etc.; e.g., the use of new or the improving of 

 old nets of various kinds and for various classes of fish, especially the 

 purse seine for sardines, of the long line, of liand lines for sharks, of 

 trawl nets, of implements for securing algte, etc. ; improvements of 

 boats and gear especially in the matter of safety for deep-sea boats ; 

 the preservation and transport of fish in a fresh condition ; the 

 preservation and use of bait ; the examination of fishing grounds and 

 oceanography in general including plankton (fish food) researches ; 

 observation as to breeding and shoaling seasons ; meteorology ; 

 investigation of the Korean waters, etc. 



(2) Preservation of fish, e.g., the pickling (wet salting processes) 

 and smoking various classes of fish (these processes were not much in 

 use originally except the smoking of bonito, fish being chiefly light 

 salted and dried), canning, refrigeration and desiccation, new modes 

 of drying fish of various classes, including shell fish ; the manufacture 

 of fish oils, vegetable isinglass, iodine, salt, and fertiliser ; the 

 investigation of the trade in these articles, and so forth. 



(8) Culture, e.g., salmon hatching and the bionomics of 

 salmon ; the hatching of various fish; the culture to maturity of carp, 

 mullet, eel, snapping turtle, pearl oyster, oyster, b^che-de-mjr, clams, 

 and other molluscs and seaweed ; the culture of carp for distribution 

 to paddy fields (see below) : enquiring into the breeding seasons of 

 marine aninials ; the distribution to fishermen of fry and spat especially 

 of new and approved species and so forth. 



(4) General, such as the encouragement of fishery associations, 

 education especially practical, the encouragement of thrift and the 

 status of the fisher folk, etc. 



It will be seen that the subjects enquired into at these stations are 

 in the highest degree practical, and it will jiresently be shown that the 

 methods of experiment and instruction are equally practical. 



27. Statistics for 1 902 show the classes of experiments carried out 

 in that year, as follows ; — 



