160 SEA FISHERIES 



diploma is given which will ultimately carry with it 

 certain advantages of a military order. 



The "Society for Professional and Technical Instruc- 

 tion in Maritime Fishery " was founded some fifteen years 

 ago by M. Cacheux. M. Coutant is the president, and M. 

 Perard the general secretary. Its object is "the develop- 

 ment of maritime fisheries and the improvement of the 

 condition of the sea-going fishermen. It institutes, with 

 this object, professional schools of fishery, courses for 

 adults, and museums of fishery. It organises congresses, 1 

 exhibitions, and competitive examinations/' It distributes 

 subsidies and material to the schools of fishery already in 

 existence. At Concarneau it has a motor training-vessel, 

 the Gotland, which from October to July serves as a 

 "floating annex" to the fishery schools of Finistere, 

 while during August and September it is employed in 

 oceanographical researches. 2 Finally, since last year it 

 has formed autonomous sections at certain points of the 

 coast, which will organise and administer schools of 

 fishery under its direction and control. 



The nations of Northern Europe possess similar insti- 

 tutions. In Belgium they are State-supported ; but 

 elsewhere the Government usually confines itself to con- 

 tributing grants. A Norwegian society has established 

 a fisheries museum at Bergen, which is the finest I have 

 seen ; and a " trial station," where theoretical and practi- 



1 Every two years the National Congress meets in some seaport 

 town. Last year it met at Sables-d'Olonne ; in 1907 at Bordeaux. 



* The agricultural station at Boulogne, of which M. Cligny is the 

 director, also possesses a steamboat, La Manche, provided with a live- 

 tank. The Department of the Navy has also placed at the disposal 

 of the Inspector-General of Fisheries, M. Fabre-Domergue, an old 

 scout or despatch-boat, Le Petrel. The maritime laboratories lend 

 naturalists and fishing experts their own boats ; the Plutceus and the 

 Cachalot at Roscoff , and the Roland at Banyuls-sur-Mer, 



