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Fishing Industry of Scotland, lays special emphasis on the 
need for Fishery Research and Fishery Education in order to 
ensure the prosperity of the industry. 
All Fishery statistics show that Great Britain in the years 
before the war occupied a very dominant position in the 
fisheries of North West Europe. For example, in the year 
1912 this country’s share of the produce of the North Sea 
represented over 68 per cent. of the total catch. In Herrings 
alone, Great Britain’s share was 70 per cent. of the whole. 
Now, these practical men, the Scottish Herring Fishers, in 
this Memorandum drawn up with a view to “ the reconstruction 
of the fishing industry after the war,” give as their considered 
opinion that “If Great Britain is to hold her present position 
in the Fisheries of Northern Europe it can only be done by 
providing higher education and scientific knowledge for those 
intending to enter the Fishing Industry, and closer co-operation 
between the expert and those carrying on the Industry.” 
There are other notable passages expressing sound and 
enlightened views in the Memorandum, such as “‘ Pure science 
is the fountain from which applied science draws its life and 
force,’ and again “The Fishing Industry .. . . has 
now reached such dimensions and is so complex in its activities 
as to demand special educational facilities on the same lines 
as is provided for agriculture.” “* The managers of the future,” 
they point out, “engaged in the various departments of 
fishery enterprise have not time to serve an apprenticeship 
in all the branches of business which they require to know 
eae To meet the wants of these managers, of all who 
mean to hold high place in the Fishing Industry, of fishery 
officers, and of teachers for coast schools, it is now a clamant 
necessity that suitable provision should be made.” 
These and other considerations lead up to the demand 
“That a College of Fisheries should be established in Scotland 
on the same lines as the College of Agriculture,’ and it is 
