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necessary for giving the method — as an economic 

 process — a fair and adequate trial, and all are to a 

 large extent purely scientific organisations. It is 

 therefore unnecessary to argue as to the results 

 achieved — except experimentally — in Great Britain. 

 With regard to America, there are great difficulties 

 in the way of arriving at a correct estimate of the 

 benefit conferred on the sea-fisheries there by the 

 sea-fish hatcheries at Wood's Hole and Gloucester, 

 and the same is to be said of the Newfoundland 

 hatchery at Dildo. No American investigator 

 thoroughly conversant with local conditions has 

 attempted a critical analysis of the methods and 

 results. This has been done by Mr C. E. Fryer, 

 one of the English Inspectors of Sea-Fisheries,^ 

 and so far Mr Fryer's argument, that no useful 

 results have been obtained, has not satisfactorily 

 been answered. But American fishery statistics 

 throw very little light on the problem. It 

 ought to be stated, however, that the Americans 

 themselves, so far as one can judge from the 

 official publications, are thoroughly impressed with 

 the value of their methods, and regard them as 

 having yielded notable results. 



In Norway, results of much value have been 

 claimed by Captain Dannevig, the pioneer of sea- 

 fish hatching. In that country, however, the 

 conditions are different from those with which we 



1 Reports of the Inspectors of Sea-Fisheries (England and Wales) 

 for 1895 and 1897, pp. 22 and 29 respectively. 



