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nor privately, has there been any attempt to make 

 use of the services of scientific men in relation to our 

 fisheries. The recent appointment of the distinguished 

 naturalist who is at present Inspector of Salmon 

 Fisheries, 1 is evidence of a new disposition to seek the 

 aid of the highest authorities in science in connection 

 with this subject ; but it must be remembered that 

 salmon fisheries form but a very small part of British 

 fisheries in their entirety, and that a large staff of ex- 

 perienced naturalists would be required to deal satis- 

 factorily, within a reasonable time, with the many 

 important problems presented by the British Sea 

 Fisheries. 



The Governments of some foreign States, notably 

 of France, but also on a smaller scale of Norway and 

 Sweden, Holland, Prussia, Saxony, and in a special, 

 and in many respects very noteworthy, manner, that 

 of the United States of America, have concerned them- 

 selves to obtain the aid of zoologists in developing and 

 managing the resources of the fish industries of their 

 respective territories. The results of the application 

 of accurate knowledge concerning fishes, and such 

 shell-fish as oysters, mussels, pearl-mussels, lobsters 

 and cray-fishes, have been in some cases strikingly 

 successful ; in other cases time has yet to show what 

 advantages may result from the attempts which have 

 been made. In all these countries, however, one very 

 distinct result of the appreciation of the possible value 

 of scientific knowledge of fishes and shell-fish by the 



1 Professor Huxley who, however, was not succeeded on his retire- 

 ment by a scientific man. 



