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and has a class room seating about 40 students, a net labora- 

 tory where the making and preservation of nets is taught, a 

 testing laboratory, and a fisheries museum in which we prob- 

 ably have the finest collection of models of fishing apparatus to 

 be found in this country. In the second building, Fisheries Hall 

 No. 2, we have the hatchery and the ichthyological laboratory; 

 also a lecture hall seating 150. Our hatchery is equipped with 

 troughs, batteries and tidal box, and we can handle there about 

 7,000,000 eggs at a time. The arrangement of the hatchery 

 is somewhat out of the ordinary. Each trough is seven feet 

 in length, set crosswise, and has its own intake and outlet 

 pipes. Each student is responsible for his particular trough, 

 and that alone. Alongside this building there are a number 

 of rearing ponds, and we are adding to them as fast as the 

 need becomes apparent. 



In the third building. Fisheries Hall No. 3, we have a 

 complete cannery and saltery, mild-curing establishment, and 

 barrel-making plant, and we intend to add to these a small 

 smoke-house and freezer. In this cannery we are able to can 

 any species of aquatic animal in any type of container. We 

 can cook in water, steam, or oil. We have also a small dryer 

 for partially drying the fish, and we have facilities outside 

 for sun drying. We are trying to conduct the technological 

 work along practical lines, in fact, as much as possible like 

 the actual work in commercial plants. 



We have three classes of students. First, there is the 

 regular university student, the one who passes through the 

 high school and comes to the university with all the necessary 

 requirements. We enroll him for a four-year term, at the 

 end of which time, if he passes the necessary examinations, he 

 may attain the degree of bachelor of science in fisheries; 

 he may remain an additional year, when, if he qualifies, he 

 will obtain the degree of master of science in fisheries. 



Second, there are scattered throughout the country a 

 number of earnest men very much interested in fisheries and 



