18 fae EDIBLE PISHES OF NEWesOURE WALES. 
chiefly interested. While this should undoubtedly be done, 
any work carried out should be so arranged—as far as 
practicable—as to dovetail in with work carried out by the 
higher authority. In addition to this, and for the purpose 
of generaly disseminating knowledge of our fisheries and the 
many allied matters, Fisheries Colleges—somewhat after the 
fashion of those recently founded with such great success in 
Japan—should be established without delay. These could 
be placed at convenient spots and should be so constituted as 
to be in a position to teach all general matters, such as various 
fishing methods, the preparation of fishery products as food, 
the various methods and the principles of oyster cultivation, 
&c., as well as certain biological matters, upon a knowledge 
of which the successful prosecution of a fishery so often 
depends. To assist in the carrying out of the work, intelli- 
gent young men, possessed of a very necessary amount of 
patriotism and the desire to learn, should be sent for certain 
terms, to study the fisheries problems, and the “ method of 
attack’ of those problems in other countries. Such men 
would then, in the ordinary course of events, become the 
teachers in our Fisheries Colleges; but in any case, whether 
the latter were established or not, the knowledge thereby 
gained would be invaluable when adapted to our-own condi- 
tions. This, I may add, is part of the already successful 
plan, at present being followed by our hardy and go-ahead 
neighbors, the Japanese. 
Hitherto, the only State in the Commonwealth of Australia 
that has seriously attacked fisheries work* has been New 
South Wales; and during the last few years a considerable 
amount of useful investigation into our fishes and fisheries 
has been carried out. As far as ‘‘ outside’ marine investi- 
gation is concerned, the most important work so far per- 
formed by this State was that undertaken by Mr. Frank 
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* At least as far as marine work is concerned. 
