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Thus it will be seen that these boats arranged in the 1st and 

 2nd grades are those not put to any specified use, but rather 

 are used by those engaged in various kinds of fishing. 



Tl:ose arranged in the third grade are fishing boats character- 

 istically Japanese. They are most numerous and in spite of their 

 simple construction, they have comparatively a great sustaining 

 power. These boats of Japanese types are used everywhere in 

 Japan. Fishing boats of these kinds are about fifty feet in length, 

 and are adopted for fishing at a distance of lOO nautical miles 

 off the shore, but are altogether unfitted for deep sea fisliery 

 beyond that distance. The fishing boats in the 4th and 5th 

 grades are those constructed as the result of -the encourage- 

 ment given by the Government for deep sea fishery and the 

 improvement of fishing boats by the eclectic adoption of the 

 best in schooners, steamers and vessels with motor engines such 

 as those used in countries of Europe and America, and adopted 

 to the fishery conditions of the Japanese. They are about three 

 hundred in number, but are most commonly used in various 

 kinds of fishery, and are rich in variety, for in reference to the 

 line, position, spar, and motive power, these boats present great 

 differences from one another. 



The. following brief explanation is given in regard to each 

 model. 



1. Experimental and Training Boats These are built 



by the Government for the purpose of experiments in connec- 

 tion with fishery and also for the training of students. 



A. Drifters exhibited by the Fishery Bureau. 



These boats were built by the Fishery Training Institute 

 some ten years ago for the purpose of training students, but as 

 a result of the striking progress made in the construction of fishing 



