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was not consulted. This matter is not settled yet. This is also a case for an 
international society to settle by arbitration free from political bias. 
At the International Fisheries Exhibition, London, in 1883, a statement was 
made by our much esteemed and lamented friend, Prof. Brown Goode, of the 
United States Fisheries Bureau. Hesaid: ‘‘ As long ago as the year 1600, within 
forty years of the settlement in New England, there were records of the colonists 
seining the mackerel off Cape Cod by moonlight; and it was somewhat remarka- 
ble that on this fishery was founded the system of public schools in the United 
States, for within ten or twenty years of that time the first public school was 
founded on a tax upon the fishery.’’ It is not my intention to touch upon the 
American fisheries; it would be presumptuous to do more than eulogize the rapid 
progress and the enormous success accruing from the excellent management 
and regulations in the vast territory of that part of our globe. Such men as 
my friends Capt. J. W. Collins and Prof. Brown Goode, whom I have already 
named, have done much for the American fisheries and have enriched all other 
nations by their original research and publications. Their names will live 
when many of us have finished our careers. 
Note.—Appended to Mr. Olsen’s remarks were reprints of the following documents as published 
in his Fishermen’s Nautical Almanac: 
Digest of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 and 58 Vict., ch. 60). 
North Sea Fisheries Act, 1893. 
Extract from the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883. 
