[5] ADMINISTRATION OF NORWEGIAN FISHERIES. 357 



carried out, cacli tiordjs to Ikivc. a siiperinteiideiit of fisheries, who is to 

 be appointed and paid by the district authorities. 



Germany. — The police authorities see to it that the fishery laws are 

 properly observed. The Government, however, is at liberty to appoint 

 special officers for this purpose. Fishery associations, towns, and njany 

 owners of large fisheries appoint and pay officers, who are subordinate 

 to tije authorities appointed by the Government. Several associations 

 are active in promoting the fisheries. 



The Netherl'ands. — The superintendence of the salt-water fisher- 

 ies is in the hands of a board {het Collegie voor de Zccvischerijen) coui- 

 l)Osed of fifteen members appointed by the King, one-third of whom 

 retire from office every year. There is a provision of the fishery law, 

 according to which no member of this board can have a pecuniary in- 

 terest in the fisheries. The board selects five of its members, as a man- 

 aging board, to attend to the current business. Each province is repre- 

 sented in the board, which meets only once a year, while the managing 

 board meets every third month. Its business consists princii)ally in 

 collecting statistics relative to the fisheries, in iurnishiug information 

 on matters pertaining to the fisheries, and in promoting the fishing in- 

 terests in every possible way. Every year it publishes a report con 

 taining detailed statistics of the Dutch fisheries, a review of the fisher- 

 ies in other countries, and different articles on the condition of the 

 Dutch fisheries and on various means of promoting them. The report 

 is edited by the secretary of the board, at present a professor of law at 

 the University of Leyden, the different members of the board furnishing 

 him with the necessary material. The secretary receives a salary of 

 $241,20 per annum, while the other members of the board are merely 

 paid their traveling expenses for all journeys undertaken in the inter- 

 ests of the fisheries. Under this board there are twelve Jceurmeesters or 

 "branders," who now, since the barrels are no longer branded, have to 

 classify the herring brought in by the fishing-boats before they are 

 sold at public auction. 



For superintending the fisheries there is one steamer and six sailing- 

 vessels on the river Schelde, and a steamer to watch over the oyster 

 fisheries in the Zuyder Zee. This last-mentioned steamer is also to see 

 to it that no nets of the kind called " Icnilnetten" are used from May 15 

 .to July 15, during the period when their use is forbidden by law. All 

 the officials connected with the superintendence of the fisheries are 

 under the board. 



For the practical and scientific investigations which, so far, have prin- 

 cipally been directed to the raising of oysters, there is a traveling zoo- 

 logical station, maintained by the Ncderlandsche Dierlnindifje Vereeniging 

 [Xetherlands Zoological Society], wbich receives some aid from the 

 I Government. 



I Belgium. — The fisheries l)elong under a bureau in the Ministry of 

 Public Works — the Bureau of Maritime Affairs. In each of the 4 sea 



