372 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
the way of vessels, apparatus, and methods of fishing, aquiculture, etc., must 
be introduced. A bureau of fisheries, modeled much after the pattern of the 
West, with headquarters in Shanghai and branches in Mukden, Tientsin, 
Chefoo, Canton, and Foochow, has been established. The maritime prov- 
inces of Féngtien, Shantung, Chékiang, Kiangsu, Fukien, and Kuangtung have 
interested themselves in the work of this bureau. Investigation has been 
made of the different types of vessels, nets, and other apparatus employed in 
the industry, of the groups of fishermen and their methods of fishing, of the 
habits and rules and traditional usages obtaining among fishermen, with a view 
to governmental legislation and regulation, and also of the numerous islands 
and rocky coasts, which have for centuries been the resorts of our fishermen. 
The last-mentioned work has been carried out with the cooperation of instruct- 
ors from our naval college at Nanking. This fisheries bureau, more commonly 
known as the Kiang-Ché Fishery Company, is authorized and recognized by our 
Ministry of Agriculture, Works, and Commerce, and has for commissioner-general 
the taotai of Shanghai. 
Established only about four years ago, the fisheries bureau is of course only in 
an embryo state, but in a general way much has been accomplished.- The industry 
has been encouraged and developed in that protection has been afforded to the 
fishermen from attacks of pirates, from clandestine fishing by foreign vessels 
in Chinese waters, and from illegal exactions by official underlings. By the con- 
struction of houses for the storing of natural ice, the sale of fresh fish has greatly 
increased. A fishing vessel propelled by steam power was purchased, but so 
far the vessel has proved to be a failure from the financial point, for the simple 
reason that deep-sea fishes can not fetch good prices in our country. Two years 
ago the bureau succeeded in sending a very complete exhibit of the fisheries of 
our Empire to the Milan Exposition, and those of you who were present will 
remember the numerous models of fishing boats and fishing nets and the hun- 
dreds of finny creatures caught in Chinese waters that were placed on view. 
We have with us this time models of 19 different kinds of fishing nets, which you 
may examine at your leisure. 
It is proposed to establish a large fishery school at Woosung, the entrance 
to the city of Shanghai and the resort of numerous fishing boats, the funds 
being contributed by the governments of 11 provinces. The site has already 
been chosen and leveled, and construction of the building will begin in the imme- 
diate future. As a nucleus of this future college—for it is hoped the institution 
will grow into a college—we have already organized a school, with 100 pupils, 
mostly sons of fishermen. Connected with the school is a museum, and it is 
planned to construct an aquarium on a large scale. 
One of the more important duties of the bureau has been the collection of 
statistics, a branch of knowledge much neglected by us in the past. The work 
is full of difficulties, but from a cursory examination it is found that the total 
