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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 135 
interested and the study by competent experts of specimens of waste analogous to 
that which would be discharged by the projected factory. 
(9) Maritime nations should, as soon as possible, reach an international agree- 
ment for the regulation of lights on fishin vessels. 
(10) The powers should close to navigation, by restrictive laws promulgated 
by each government, certain defined zones resorted to by marine fishermen. 
(11) The governments represented at the congress should encourage by bounties 
the destruction of injurious marine animals, such as sharks and porpoises, and 
should also promote investigations leading to the utilization of such animals. 
(12) The various governments should encourage experiments in freezing fish, 
with the following purposes in view: (a) The benefit of marine fishermen by the 
safe and regular marketing of a commodity which naturally is eminently perish- 
able. (b) Securing a more uniform price for fish. (¢c) Supplying laboring people 
with a cheap article of food. 
(13) The different governments should encourage the construction of steam 
vessels designed for the collection of fishing products at sea in order to insure the 
better utilization of such products. 
(14) In order to facilitate the introduction of fishing products into regions where 
at present they are but little used, railroad companies should adopt uniform freight 
rates and should expedite the transportation of these products as much as possible. 
(15) The governments should provide subsidies to promote the study of the best 
methods of preparing fish upon the fishing-grounds, and the packing of fresh fish 
in a manner to secure their transportation in the best possible condition. 
(16) New fishing schools should be established which would extend maritime 
instruction and give to the pupils practical experience at sea. Special courses 
should be founded for instructing men and women in the preparation and utiliza- 
tion of sea products. Diplomas should be granted to marine fishermen who pursue 
the course of study at these schools, and who can pass a creditable examination 
before a competent commission. 
(17) Earnest efforts should be made in fishing ports to instruct marine fishermen 
in the care of their health on board as well as on shore. The necessity for this has 
been pointed out by previous congresses. 
(18) The fishing industry and marine fishermen should be considered as neutral 
in time of war. 
(19) The congress directs the enerinion of a permanent international committee 
to have charge of the organization of future fishery congresses, such committee 
to be selected by joint action of officers of the congress together with the official 
delegates of the different powers and of the learned societies here represented. 
(20) The next inte: national congress of aquiculture and fisheries shall be held in 
1902, in St. Petersburg. 
(21) The congress orders the periodical publication of international compara- 
tive fishery statistics cn the basis of The Hague Statistical Congress of 1869, 
including full statistics of accidents on fishing vessels. This publication shall be 
intrusted to a permanent international committee or, in default of this, to the St. 
Petersburg committee of organization. 
22) Recognizing the importance of having an organ of international fishery 
congresses, the proposition of the Russian Society of Fisheries and Fish Culture 
is accepted, and the Revue International de Péche et, de Pisciculture is designated 
as such organ. 
EUROPEAN BIOLOGICAL STATIONS. 
The writer’s presence in Europe, in connection with the Interna- 
tional Congress of Aquiculture and Fisheries, afforded an opportunity 
to visit some of the great biological stations, for the purpose of mak- 
ing observations on their management, construction, equipment, and 
methods of study. The time available permitted the visiting of only 
