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limited therefore, verf limited, both as to locality and time. [f 

 such defined indnstriea as iron mines, cotton-mills, saw-mills, and 

 so forth, have repeatedly broken down for want of prescience of 

 ' difficulties, much more is a like danger to be guarded againsl 

 in an industry which is to spread itself over so wide an ana as all 

 India, ami to be applied to Buch much less controlable elements as 

 natural forces, animal life, human beings. 



76. My conclusion, then, is that the first Btep which the Govern- 

 ment should take is to appoint an officer who shall he able to 



the whole of his undivided attention to the mastery of practical 

 difficulties; they are neither few nor insignificant, and the vis 

 inertia to he overcome at every turn is alone so great, that such an 

 officer will have before him a truly Herculean labour. If he is 

 resolved to leave marks of success within a reasonable time, he will 

 not tail to find hi- best energies and his patience taxed to the 

 utmost. 



77. Whether there should at first be one such officer for all 

 India, or one for each Presidency, I am doubtful; but if there 

 !»■ only one, I think he should work in the direction of systema- 

 tizing a scheme by which each Presidency should eventually have 

 charge of its own fisheries, for if the industry grows as it should, 

 the Fisheries of a Presidency, like the Salt, the Police, the Agri- 

 culture of a Presidency, will be as much as one head can manage. 

 Each Presidency should also, for the purpose of extension, have the 

 (•( mtrol of its own funds, the proceeds of its fisheries. At the outset 

 it may be possible that some small allotment may be needed from 

 Imperial Funds, hut I do not anticipate it. 



78. Any officer or officers appointed to the duty should, I think, 

 give attention to all the local peculiarities which I have above 

 indicated, to the drafting of a law, to the creation of an experi- 

 mental Farm, to the organization of so much Establishment as may 

 be found absolutely necessary for the protection of the Fisheries, to 

 the writing of the very simplest and briefest possible manuals for 

 the guidance of those employed in the advancement of Fisheries. 



7'.'. With Ichthyology or the classification and nomenclature of 

 fish, I do not think we need concern ourselves; that is being well 

 done by Dr. Day, the late Inspector-General of Indian Fisheries, 

 and even in his retirement, and at his private cost. Not only 

 should no counter effort he made in that direction, hut any possible 



