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more stations for the culture of those kinds of sea-fish 
which form such important part of the food supply of 
the nation. 
DISCUSSION. 
Sir EDWARD WATKIN proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. 
Mundahl for his very able paper. He said he did not do 
so as a mere matter of compliment, but because the paper 
really contained a great deal of instruction and information 
on a most interesting question. With regard to one of his 
remarks as to the course which the French Government had 
taken with regard to protecting and keeping order on the 
fishing grounds where French vessels were occupied, he 
must say that he had often wondered, seeing that English- 
men were more dependent on fishing than any other country, 
that our Government should have taken so little care to 
protect and keep order on the fishing grounds where our 
fishermen were employed. He could only explain the 
reason of the apparent indifference which was shown, by the 
fact that in many public departments the people who had 
to do the executive work were excessively ignorant. He 
did not know whether any one else present had been struck 
with it, and perhaps it would be rather out of order for him 
to make such a remark, but in this country we seemed to 
be getting every day more and more infested by those 
ignorant people who were always anxious to get official pay 
and employment. He had no doubt now that Mr. Mundahl 
had called attention to this matter, and that, generally 
speaking, owing to this Exhibition, public attention was 
being concentrated on the important question of our 
fisheries, there would be a little more courtesy and atten- 
tion shown on the part of the Government, and that 
