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States in the Union. We are trying at present to cover the 

 whole North American continent, but I see very plainly that 

 our real work is to be carried on in connection with the fishery 

 activities of the countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean. We 

 have a wonderful field there, — probably the greatest unde- 

 veloped fishery resources in the world are in the countries abut- 

 ting on the Pacific Ocean, and there is no doubt that this great 

 section alone will keep us busy. We have been very willing, 

 therefore, to welcome into the field any other college of the 

 same type, particularly one established on the Atlantic. 



I have just talked to the fishermen in Boston and Glou- 

 cester on this subject. They invited me to go down there and 

 outline to them what we have done at the College of Fisheries 

 in Washington. I did so, and I believe they are very enthu- 

 siastic in the matter. I found them laboring under a 

 misapprehension, and possibly some of you people are in the 

 same position. We are not turning out fishermen and we have 

 not the slightest intention of doing so. Now, that is usually a 

 shock to many people, but there are very few men who would 

 care to devote four years of the best period of their lives to 

 learning to be only a fisherman. What we are trying to do in 

 our technological course is to turn out men of executive 

 ability with a thorough understanding of the fisheries. A 

 student with the broad training thus acquired may have a lit- 

 tle more difficult time for the first four or five years, but at the 

 end of that period he will go further and do better than one 

 who has devoted his attention, we will say, to canning alone. 

 In addition to that, we are trying to turn out fish culturists with 

 good scientific training. All of our students have that, as we 

 give them excellent training in chemistry, zoology, bacteriology, 

 and botany before they begin with the fisheries work. Some 

 men, of course, will develop along purely scientific fishery 

 lines, and they will have plenty of opportunity for doing so. 



We are devoting much attention in our courses to busi- 

 ness administration; we are offering courses in elementary 

 accounting, cost accounting, business management, employ- 



