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training of young- men. It may possibly happen, moreover, that 

 larger opportunities will offer in the not distant future for training men 

 under this second method. 



221. The third method, that of sending Indians abroad for training, 

 appears in every way the most suitable ; a delay of two or three years 

 may be regrettable but is necessary jpour mieux sauter, and the method 

 lays a solid foundation for the indigenous working of an indigenous 

 industry. 



The ordinary Government of India scholarships are not suitable for 

 the training required ; in the first place there is no European or 

 American institution capable of giving the necessary training at once 

 highly technical, practical and comprehensive, while to send unin- 

 structed young men to Europe or America on a general mission 

 would be to court failure. We need a place where young men can be 

 deliberately and systematically trained all round, each in the par- 

 ticular branch of the business which he takes up, viz., catching, 

 preserving, cultivating, trading. I know of no place outside of Japan 

 where such all-round instruction is or could be given ; technical fishery 

 training institutions are, so far as I know, non-existent in English- 

 speaking countries, and students would require to learn their work by 

 rule of thumb in the variety of factories or fishing ports which are 

 scattered along the coasts, a method at once imperfect and not very 

 accessible. European and American fishery study is technically 

 profitable where a man, already properly prepared, intends to learn by 

 practice a particular item or sub-division of the industry, like the 

 Japanese fishery graduate at Yarmouth who was mastering the Yar- 

 mouth herring and bloater trade. It is, of course, also highly useful 

 for widening general knowledge after a man has acquired a large 

 and definite experience in his branch of work ; before that a man 

 could only get a superficial or general knowledge of great directive 

 or advisory value but of little use in the actual working of a practical 

 industry which demands not merely a knowledge of principles but 

 a complete grasp of technical working details of the industrial 

 processes and actual manual skill. 



Hence I do not advocate the despatch of students to Europe or 

 America for the preliminary technical training which we require, while 

 the expense would be almost prohibitive at Grovernment of India 

 scholarship rates for the number of men who ought to be sent in the 

 next few years. 



222. On the other hand, as shown above in paragraphs 50 to 72, 

 the Imperial Fishery Institute in Tokyo, is an institution remarkably 

 complete in everything that can train men in the principles and in all 

 the practical details of each of the three great divisions of the fishing 

 industry and trade ; staff and plant, mental and manual training, are 

 alike thorough, and all is taught, so to say, almost under one roof ; the 







