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interfere with the fishing industry more success- 

 fully than our predecessors, should we not take 

 advantage of the present time of prosperity to 

 increase our knowledge on every side scientific, 

 statistical, experimental so as to be able to 

 act with conviction when the whole circumstances 

 are clearer, and the adequacy of our proposals 

 is less open to doubt ? 



Moreover, in view of the growing interest of 

 other countries, especially Germany and Holland, 

 in deep-sea trawling, and of the international 

 character of the most critical problems, can there 

 be any two opinions as to the desirability of 

 continuing investigations which have already 

 been productive of very promising results ? 



Before, in conclusion, we turn our attention 

 to the various bodies which administer and 

 investigate the fisheries of England, a short 

 consideration of what is done in the two great 

 countries which have scientifically developed their 

 fisheries may be profitable. In Germany we 

 have the Kiel Kommission, and in the United 

 States the Commission of Fish and Fisheries. 



The Kiel Kommission exists for the scientific 

 investigation of the German seas. It was estab- 

 lished in 1870, at the suggestion of a German 



