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trained in tlie varieties of marine culture such as oysters and other 

 shell-fish, pearls and sponges, crustaceans, etc. ; the teachers of the 

 necessary industrial or other fishery schools; the men of wide fishery 

 knowledge and of practical ideas gained from world-wide enquiry and 

 study. 



217. The preparatory or foundation work of a novel industry 

 or of wholly novel developments of an industry, necessarily occupies 

 years, if work is to be placed from the outset on a proper foundation. 

 Japan began serious preparatory work about 1881, formed its earliest 

 Bureau in 1885, but was unable to start its first experimental station 

 till 1894 though the first training school was begun in 1888 by the 

 Fisheries Society, and Japanese delegates had lai-goly studied abroad. 

 With her experience before us, while we need not be unduly troubled 

 by reasonable delay, it is obviously necessary to begin providing 

 experts as soon as the necessity is demonstrated ; it is claimed that 

 the example of Japan applied to our own conditions has fully demon- 

 strated that necessity. 



218. Now for Government there are only three practicable methods 

 of providing the necessary experts ; the first is to call in foreign experts 

 from the various nations who have progressed furthest in the several 

 branches of the industry; the second is to wait till foreign merchants 

 and manufacturers have set up their works (and got hold of the cream 

 of the business) and to trust for indigenous progress to the object 

 lessons provided by their enterprise and to the training of apprentices 

 and others in their factories ; the third is to send our own men abroad 

 for training. 



219. The first method is too cumbrous and expensive, for the 

 experts would have to be well paid men from Europe or America and 

 yet each would only deal with part of one branch, for the scientist 

 could neither trawl nor can, the trawler is not a drifter or liner, the 

 canner is not a pickler or Salter, the trout or carp culturist cannot 

 grow oysters or lobsters or pearls. Then the practical experts of the 

 working industry are not usually of the class desirable or capable as 

 instructors, and while necessarily of an age not very suitable for 

 coming newly to India, would be absolutely ignorant of the country, 

 its people, manners, languages, and conditions, and for various reasons 

 would be sparely capable of adapting themselves to their surroundings 

 and pupils. There are other obvious objections. 



220. The second plan may be put out of court at once, for though 

 the coming of European enterprise is possible or even probable, it would 

 be less than fair to wait its arrival and capture of the trade in order 

 to save the trouble or expense of training men. In the matter of 

 canning which individual European enterprise has already begun 

 on the West Coast, a proposal will be separately made for the early 



