THE SEA-FISHERIES " 311 



Many other instances of the energetic and successful 

 exploitation of American fisheries — in the interests both of 

 the fishermen and the pubUc — might be given, but these 

 two examples, both bearing newly-coined names which 

 have rapidly become famiUar to the pubHc, must sufiice. 



Thus we have seen that sea-fisheries investigation and 

 promotion may be approached from many points of view, 

 and with the great advances that have been made of recent 

 years, the aspects and prospects of successful sea-fisheries 

 research have undergone changes which encourage the hope 

 that a combination of the work now carried on by hydro- 

 graphers and biologists in most civilized countries on funda- 

 mental problems of the ocean may result in a more rational 

 exploitation and administration of the fishing industries. 



Edward Forbes long ago (1847) denounced Government 

 apathy and strongly urged that such scientific fisheries 

 work should be undertaken " for the good of the country 

 and for the better proving that the true interests of Govern- 

 ment are those Unked with and inseparable from Science." 

 All will most cordially approve of these last words, while 

 recognizing that our Government Department of Fisheries 

 is now being organized on better lines, is itseK carrying 

 on scientific work of national importance, and is, I am happy 

 to think, in complete sympathy with the work of independent 

 scientific investigators of the sea and desirous of closer 

 co-operation with university laboratories and biological 

 stations. 



