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more stations for the culture of those kinds of sea-fish 

 which form such important part of the food supply of 

 the nation. 



DISCUSSION. 



Sir EDWARD WATKIN proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Mundahl for his very able paper. He said he did not do 

 so as a mere matter of compliment, but because the paper 

 really contained a great deal of instruction and information 

 on a most interesting question. With regard to one of his 

 remarks as to the course which the French Government had 

 taken with regard to protecting and keeping order on the 

 fishing grounds where French vessels were occupied, he 

 must say that he had often wondered, seeing that English- 

 men were more dependent on fishing than any other country, 

 that our Government should have taken so little care to 

 protect and keep order on the fishing grounds where our 

 fishermen were employed. He could only explain the 

 reason of the apparent indifference which was shown, by the 

 fact that in many public departments the people who had 

 to do the executive work were excessively ignorant. He 

 did not know whether any one else present had been struck 

 with it, and perhaps it would be rather out of order for him 

 to make such a remark, but in this country we seemed to 

 be getting every day more and more infested by those 

 ignorant people who were always anxious to get official pay 

 and employment. He had no doubt now that Mr. Mundahl 

 had called attention to this matter, and that, generally 

 speaking, owing to this Exhibition, public attention was 

 being concentrated on the important question of our 

 fisheries, there would be a little more courtesy and atten- 

 tion shown on the part of the Government, and that 



