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iucreasiug the country's profits from the lesser fisheries, yes, perhaps, 

 partly even for creating new and quite important fisheries. In finally 

 discussing the arraugemeut and use of the purse-seine, I have sought 

 to direct attention to an implement of capture which we stood greatly 

 in need of, namelj^, an instrument with which one can fish in the ojDen 

 sea, and among other fishes catch also the herring, which will not resort 

 to the shore. It seems to me that much might be accomplished with all 

 the implements here named. The fisheries in our country, it is true, are 

 associated with so many ancient traditions and continue in many parts 

 in so little developed proportions, that it could not be exi)ected that new 

 ideas should be accepted at once, to say nothing of a complaisant recep- 

 tion ', but perhaps on that very account one should labor the more dili- 

 gently to extend in this field an acquaintance with improvements and 

 new methods of work. 



