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ous journals, including the Canadian Fisherman, New York 

 Fishing Gazette, Pacific Fisherman, Montreal Star, Toronto 

 Globe, American Fisheries Society Transactions, etc. Further 

 development of this propaganda is in progress, and must 

 bring important results. A special publicity branch is now 

 at work. 



7. Technical fishery education scheme. This has em- 

 braced lectures to fishermen, and practical instruction, the first 

 step being taken at Little River, N. S., in 1913, and the last 

 being courses in 1919-20 under Professor A. P. Knight on 

 "Lobster Life and Conservation," and by Professor A. G. 

 Huntsman and myself in the Maritime Provinces in the spring 

 and fall of 1920 on "Habits and Life-History of Fishes." 



8. Fishery exhibits at expositions in Canada and abroad, 

 including Government fish-dinners, as at the Toronto annual 

 exhibition, the issue of fish cook books, circulation of Bio- 

 logical Board fish bulletins on new food fish and other topics 

 of great public interest. 



9. Fish-curing and packing instruction by qualified offi- 

 cers, including improvement of methods, barrels, and pack- 

 ages, and general standardization of the packed products.* 



10. Commissions of fishery inquiry which, during the 

 last quarter of a century, have numbered more than twenty. 

 The commissioners, usually men prominent in the industry, 

 or well-informed locally, visited the fishing centres, took evi- 

 dence, and published reports and recommendations for the 

 guidance of the Government. A fishery committee of the 

 House of Commons, and an advisory fishery council, have 

 from time to time aided in a similar way. The pubUshed 

 reports of commissions and various committees are a mine 

 of valuable information on the fishing industries. 



11. Bait freezers have been established under Govern- 

 ment auspices, and fish refrigerators have been subsidized, 

 while a fish-drying house was for a time operated, as an ob- 



* Legal authorization of standards, and official inspection, etc., are provided 

 under the recent fish inspection act (1914) and canneries act. 



