CHAPTER IX 



FOREIGN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS 



EVEN a brief mention of the authorities con- 

 cerned with sea-fisheries administration in foreign 

 countries would take more space than is consistent 

 with the aims of such a work as this. No civilised 

 country has failed to regulate in some way or other 

 the fisheries within its own waters, and even a 

 summary account of the methods and results of 

 these bodies would be tedious and uninteresting 

 to the general student of the British fishing 

 industry. Fishery administration is, moreover, of 

 local interest only, since general principles do not 

 govern it so much as a consideration of those 

 natural and economic conditions peculiar to the 

 locality which is the area of administration. 

 Fisheries scientific research is of much more 

 general interest ; but even here a great amount of 

 work must be undertaken for each particular area 

 which need not necessarily have any direct import- 

 ance in relation to the fisheries of another country. 

 Nevertheless, no account of fisheries investigation 



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