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making suggestious on fishery matters to tlie Prefect, for the reporting 

 by members to the Cliamber of any facts injurious to fisheries, and for 

 the investigation of the market for a particular article when a member 

 presents a request to the Chamber stating the nature of the article, its 

 price, probable fju.nitity, and other details, and pays a fee ; rules 

 for the opening of exhibitions or for preparing exhibits for public 

 exhibitions; rules for hononring persons wh ) have improved tlie 

 industry or increased the coimnoa benefit ; rules for settling trade 

 disputes among members. 



120. These Chambers seem already to be doing good work : thev 

 have formulated suggestions of many kinds ; a single Chamber has, 

 intfT alia, suggested to the Minister the project of a Fishery Bank to 

 supply capital to fishermen who are now very hard pressed by scanty- 

 capitiil and higli interest ; the necessity and position for a fishery 

 harbour and improved boats and gear ; to the Prefect the necessity for 

 a Fishery school in a particular locality : to the Governor of Korea 

 the need for a fishing port with proper communications between it and 

 the markets, the provision of education for the children of the Japanese 

 fishei'raen working in Korea, and the necessity for sanitary measures on 

 the shore. Another Chamber purchases salt wholesale and supplies 

 it to members at rates cheaper than the retail market ; the sale per 

 annum is 70,000 bags of 1 j bushel (0'25 koku) each, and the saving 

 effected to members was no less than lis. 21,000. Another Chamber 

 held an important conference, issued 500 charts of fishing- grounds, 

 opened a local competitive show, and passed resolutions which were 

 sent to the Prefect in favour (a) of sending the committee to sea on 

 board the improved fishing boat of the expe:-imental station in order 

 to acquire a knowledge of its working, (h) of adding fishery subjects 

 to the curriculum of primary schools and industrial supplementary 

 schools (see " Education ") in sea coast villages, (c) of starting a 

 local branch of the proposed Fishery Bank as soon as it should be 

 established, (</) of establishing at an early date Fishery harbours in two 

 localities from which pelagic fishery is carried on ; and (e) of obtaining 

 a subsidy from the Prefect for opening temporary (fishery) schools, for 

 holding exhibitions by each Chamber in turn, (or studying pelagic 

 fishery, for the further employment of experts, and for the relief of 

 shipwrecked fishermen. 



12 1 . Another Chamber devoted itself so tiioroughly to the improve- 

 ment of the members' products, to their proper packing and to a 

 careful inspection of the same, that the outturn far exceeded that of 

 non-members both in quantity and quality. This year the Chamber 

 is proceeding to carry out trawling experiments. 



122. It will be seen that these Fishery Chambers are extremely 

 useful and practical Trade Associations. Presumably every person 

 engaged in the fishing trade or industry ought to become a membej" 



