272 THE SEA FISHERIES 



Foreign Fisheries. Extra-European 



These fisheries, with the exception of the United States (p. 250) 

 and Japan, are but Uttle developed. 



China 



In 1914 the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce published 

 regulations to encourage the fishing industry at sea.^ A sum of 

 $50,000 was set aside in that year, this being an annual appropriation 

 for the encouragement of the industry. The inshore fisheries of 

 China are imique in one respect, since the presence of piracy seems 

 to be the chief obstacle to their development. In the third year of 

 the republic (1914) the Ministry started to establish fishery training 

 schools along the coast, and several have aheady been established 

 in the provinces of Chili, Chekiang, Fengtien, Fukien, and Kwang- 

 tung. 



- Japan 



The best resume of the conditions in Japan is that given by Sir 

 F. A. Nicholson in his Note on fisheries of Japan, Madras Grovern- 

 ment Press, 1907. Price i rupee 2 annas. 



South America 



' The fisheries of South America are not developed on modem 

 lines. 



Peru 



' See The Fisheries and, the Guano Industry of Peru, by R. E. Coker. 

 Proceedings of the Fourth International Fishery Congress. Part I, 

 pp. 333-365, with six plates. Washington, U.S.A. August, 1910. 



' Manchester Guardian, China number, 21st September, 1915, p. 9a, and The 

 Fisheries of China, by Wei-Ching W. Yen. Proceedings of the Fourth International 

 Fishery Congress. Washington, U.S.A., Part I, pp. 369-373. August, 1910. 



