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President O'Malley then introduced Dr. F. T. Sun, President 

 of the Fisheries School of Tientsin, China. 



DR. SUN'S ADDRESS. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Society: 



It is a great honor and pleasure for me to be present today and 

 to have the opportunity of meeting your scientific and practical 

 fisheries men assembled here in this convention of the American 

 Fisheries Society. It had been my original intention during my 

 study of the fisheries of this country to permit myself the pleasure 

 of a call upon some of you gentlemen in your various home cities, 

 and to secure from you such information as you would be good 

 enough to give me. I discussed my proposed itinerary with 

 Dr. Hugh M. Smith, head of the Bureau of Fisheries in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and asked him just how I could manage all this, 

 and he suggested that it might be advisable for me to come to 

 this meeting in order that I might here have an opportunity to 

 meet all of you together and secure the valuable information 

 which is bound to result from a meeting of this kind. 



In China, as you doubtless know, we have various provinces 

 stretching all along the coast. In addition, there are about 

 fifteen provinces in the interior of the country. The coastal 

 fisheries are inadequate to furnish sufficient fish for the interior 

 provinces. On account of the difficulties of transportation, par- 

 ticularly, it is difficult for us to send salt water fish to remote 

 provinces and as a result the price of the salt water fish is much 

 higher than for those of the fresh water rivers and lakes. The 

 Chinese seem to be very much more appreciative of the fresh 

 water fishes, also, than of those caught from the salt waters. 



We have some recent literature dealing with fish and fisheries 

 in China, but for the most part our fish culturists and fishermen 

 are working in their various sections according to information pub- 

 lished in books that were prepared in the time of our forefathers. 



More than ten years ago I proposed to our government the 

 advisability of encouraging some of the more up to date leaders 

 of fish culture in China. I suggested also that we strive to 

 co-ordinate the scientific and practical work incident to our 

 fisheries. We have found it to be somewhat difficult to get our 

 practical fishermen to adopt the views of our scientific culturists. 



