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wherever attention has been given to 

 artificial propagation and that it has 

 greatly decreased in all other places are 

 very significant facts, which establish 

 beyond question the value of artificial 

 propagation. 



4. DIVISION OF STATISTICS AND 

 METHODS OF THE FISHERIES 



The Division of Statistics and Meth- 

 ods of the Fisheries is usually known as 

 the Division of Fisheries . This division 

 has to do with the commercial fisheries, 

 both of the seas and the inland waters 

 in their statistical and economic rela- 

 tions, the apparatus and methods of the 

 fisheries, the methods of utilizing fishery 

 products, the methods and conditions of 

 the wholesale and retail trade in these 

 products, the effects of fishery legisla- 

 tion and international fishery regula- 

 tions, and ways and means by which 

 the demand for aquatic products may be 

 increased and the domestic and foreign 

 market extended. In brief, this divis- 

 ion has as its function the consideration 

 of all the resources of the rivers and 

 lakes and of the seas in all their eco- 

 nomic relations. 



The division acts as a bureau of in- 

 formation in the interests of the fisher- 



men by acquainting the fishermen of 

 one region with the improved apparatus 

 and improved methods in use in other 

 regions. In this manner the adoption 

 of modern gear and methods is encour- 

 aged and the use of antiquated, de- 

 structive, or unlawful apparatus and 

 methods is discouraged. 



As has been well stated by Mr Charles 

 H. Stevenson, of this division, the find- 

 ing of the Halifax Convention of 1877, 

 whereby our government was made to 

 pay $5,500,000 to Canada on account of 

 certain fishing privileges granted by the 

 Treaty of Washington, "emphasized 

 the necessity of having at hand accurate 

 and comprehensive statistics of the fish- 

 eries and the impossibility of judicious 

 legislation without them. " It is claimed 

 b5 r those in position best to know the 





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