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Dr. Jones : A little demonstration work ? 



Mr. Cowie: Yes. 



Dr. Robertson : I rise to ask a question and to make a sugges- 

 tion. Among the undeveloped resources of our coast, certainly, is the 

 ability of the fishermen themselves. The organization of the handling 

 of fish has heretofore been by commercial men and almost entirely 

 for profit. That is not sufficient. I rise to ask whether you and your 

 Committee next summer could not have about three sessions at good 

 fishing spots, so as to bring us in contact with the fishermen. If you 

 could even teach twenty fishermen of ability the proper method of 

 handling their fish, those twenty men could, in the course of a few 

 years, achieve great things. Our work is admirable in a meeting of 

 this kind, but I think a summer session of this Committee at three 

 selected places, with two or three really good addresses, to the fisher- 

 men, telling them first-hand the things they could never learn from 

 reading, would help to develop that undeveloped resource. That is 

 the main work of this Commission, the long-distance view, to get hold 

 of these fellows and to instruct them practically. 



