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employed instructors from those districts to teach the use of the new 

 net ; the experiments were successful and many fishermen are now 

 using them, e.g., in Hyogo there were onlj 2 in 1898 and 43 in 1903 ; 

 in Aichi the net, borrowed from the Fishery department, was intro- 

 duced in 1896, and being successful, Rs. 600 were advanced next 

 year to five fishermen for making similar nets ; by 1903 there were 87 

 such nets, and now they are almost exclusively used for catching 

 sardine. The net was not however always accepted by the fishermen. 



29. Similarly the boat and long line used for catching shark and 

 tunny in some prefectures was successfully introduced by the stations 

 of other districts ; many advances were giveu to the fishermen as soon 

 as the new venture was shown to be locally successful, and good 

 business has actually resulted. In two districts an expert in shark 

 catching was introduced by the st:ition fi'om other districts and under 

 his instruction, improved shark boats are being built by the aid of 

 advances to the fishermen who now successfully use them for shark 

 and tunny fishing even in distant waters. 



30. The introduction and wide dissemination of the method of 

 canning fish are largely due to the experimental stations, and for this 

 the note on Aichi station (Shinojima) maybe read ; other preservative 

 methods, such as the smoking of salmon, the pickling of herring, are 

 also matters of experiment. At the various exhibitions of modern 

 times, especially that of St. Louis in 1904, these stations have shown 

 a large vai-iety of excellent and low priced exhibits including not only 

 all sorts of canned goods prepared at the stations, such as sardines in 

 oil, bottled anchovies, pickled sardines and mackerel in barrels, eels 

 pickled in jelly, fish in vinegar, and so forth, but models of improved 

 boats and other fishing implements and products. 



31. So also the artificial hatching of salmon in the northern districts 

 has been successfully introduced and the cultivation of oysters, carp, 

 etc., has been also developed. 



32. The instruction of the fishermen by these stations is variously 

 carried out : it is a general rule that (except at regular schools under 

 the Educational department) only the adult sous of persons actually 

 engaged in the industry shall be taught, and by means of practical 

 work ; the course is given at various places in the district ; e.g., 

 in Chiba district courses on canning and bonito curing were given 

 in 5 places during fifteen months and 59 students successfully went 

 through the examination : in another, 95 pupils were taught, in 7 

 localities, various methods of pickling and preservings in another 117 

 completed in two places courses lasting 304 days, and so forth ; alto- 

 gether 902 went through these highly practical courses of from a few 

 days to several months in 1902. It is hardl}' necessary to add that 

 whatever the subject of instruction— catching, the use of new boats or 

 nets, ])reservation, cultuie, etc.— the students or apprentices learn ly 



