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Special arrangements are made for practical training vvliich cannot 

 bo given within the Institute. 



'' For the use of the students belonging to the Fishing Depart- 

 ment, the sailing vessel, the Kaijo Maru, was built; the students 

 are practically trained on board the vessel in the various works of their 

 department. Tliis schooner is of 140 tons gross tonnage, and 132 

 tons net tonnage. She measures 93 feet 6 inches in length, 25 feet 

 6 inches in breadth, 9 feet 5 inches in depth, and her speed is about 

 12|^ knots ; she is so built as to afford facilities for various kinds of 

 fishing, and also to be sea-worthy for an ocean voyage." 



60. To the Experimental Station in the town of Odawara, 

 Kanagawa Prefecture (see inspection note below), students in the 

 Department of Fisheries Technology are sent to get practice in their 

 special subjects of study. 



61. Several hatching and experimental stations in and out of the 

 city are connected with the Department of Pisciculture. A station 

 at Fukagawa, Tokyo is devoted to the culture of carp, eel, etc. ; 

 while that of Chuzenji near Nikko is for the hatching and breeding 

 of trout. The students are sometimes sent to these places where they 

 can get practical knowledge of pisciculture. For Marine Pisciculture 

 there is a station in Yawata, Chiba Prefecture, where experiments 

 are made on oysters and other shell-fish. Investigation is made in 

 the neighbouring seas with regard to flat-fish, spiny lobsters and 

 alofEe. Three other stations are also mentioned as available for 

 practice, and students are also sent to any place where special knowl- 

 edge and practice are to be gained. 



62. The students in the regular courses are about 150 in number, 

 50 being admitted, if suitable, each year ; those in the other courses 

 are obviously not a fixed number. Last year there were no less than 

 385 applicants lor 50 vacancies but only 45 were selected as suitable. 

 From 1897 to the date of the most recent report available, 210 men 

 had graduated, and it is noteworthy that nearly all, if not all, had 

 gone to fishery work in one form or other; 72 had passed in the 

 fishing course, 104 in that of technology, and 34 in pisciculture ; or 

 again, 19 had gone to private fishing industry, 24 to fishery compa- 

 nies principally canning, 18 to Government appointments (probably 

 to the Department), 41 to Fishery Experimental stations, 10 a8 

 experts to districts, 11 to Fishery schools, and so on ; 4 had taken a 

 post-graduate course, while not less than 16 had gone abroad for 

 study or on foreign boats, 6 of whom had obtained Government 

 scholarships for the purpose ; a considerable number, of course, had 

 gone as soldiers. Of the 438 graduates prior to 1897, 94 went into 

 private industry, 27 into companies, 14 into Fishermen's associations, 

 85 to Government, 22 to Fishery schools, 49 to Fishery Experi- 

 mental stations, 20 went abroad, and so on. It is clear that there is ^ 



