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Kabindah, and pour their products into French Congo. 

 M. Andre Bouyat has been instructed by the Govern- 

 ment of Uruguay to organise fisheries in the Bay of 

 Monte Video. Last year the Government of Ecuador 

 called the attention of its shipowners to the untouched 

 banks of the Galapagos Islands. The fisheries off the 

 Kerguelen Islands, which are scarcely two years old, are 

 fully answering the expectations based upon them ; but, 

 according to their custom, the French capitalists have 

 turned a deaf ear to all the appeals of the concessionaires : 

 the latter have been obliged to obtain the money required 

 to give life to a French colony from such a poor country 

 as Norway. M. Bounhiol has charted the practicable 

 fishing-grounds off the coast of Algeria. These represent 

 a total area of 5,600 square miles, of which barely 1,500 

 have been exploited. At the end of his remarkable 

 monograph upon Maritime Algeria M. Bounhiol writes : 

 " The fishing-grounds at present untouched are fertile, as 

 I have proved by exhaustive experiments. They come 

 under two headings. The first category consist of 

 grounds rich in fish, bordering upon long stretches of 

 country in which fishermen and fisheries are unknown ; 

 such as Dahra, Kabylia, &c. The second consist of the 

 often very considerable margins of the fishing-grounds 

 already utilised, which are as yet untouched as the fisher- 

 men will not work further out to sea." After serious 

 inquiry the Grimsby trawlers have been sent to fish in 

 the White Sea. 1 



1 A three- or four-mile territorial limit, such as is customary in 

 Europe, gave the English trawlers a free entry to the White Sea, 

 where they obtained magnificent catches. A few months ago Russia 

 claimed, and will apparently succeed in imposing, a nine-mile terri- 

 torial limit, which excludes all foreign vessels from the best portions 

 of the White Sea. [TRANS.] 



