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of a collector only, and its economic value will not appear until these 

 results have been used for the greater development of the remarkable 

 fishery resources of these islands than the native fisherman now make 

 of them. These are fishermen who catch fish principally for the supply 

 of the local community; who use for food nearly every kind of fish 

 which is caught, with but little care for possible by-products; and who 

 now preserve the fish, if at all, only by the crudest methods. Aside 

 from the purely scientific additions to knowledge, the results of this 

 Philippine expedition of the Albatross contain material which should 

 benefit not only the fishermen as a class and many a Filipino who 

 already uses fish as a staple article of his diet, but also a great number 

 of the population, living inland from the coast, to whom the best species 

 of fish properly cured would be a welcome and a wholesome addition to 

 an often too restricted fare. 



