The Fisheries of Japan 



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stations and laboratories, which are ren- 

 dering excellent service. 



THE IMPERIAL FISHERIES SCHOOL 



The Imperial fisheries school, located 

 in the outskirts of Tokyo, is an institu- 

 tion which the Japanese may be par- 

 doned for regarding with great pride, 

 for in no other country does there exist 

 a similar establishment which can com- 

 pare with this in comprehensiveness of 

 curriculum, completeness of equipment, 

 and thoroughness of instruction. The 

 last week of my sojourn in Japan I was 

 invited to speak before the faculty and 

 students of this school on the fishery 

 work of the United States government. 

 After I had been shown about the place 

 and seen something of the methods and 

 equipment I felt exceedingly doubtful 

 of my ability to impart any informa- 

 tion. The institution aims to equip 

 young men for careers of usefulness in 

 connection with the fisheries. The 

 graduates obtain good positions in the 

 government service and in fishing, fish- 

 curing, and fish-cultural establishments. 

 There are three departments of study, 

 each with a three years' course, with 

 provision for post-graduate work. 

 There is a full corps of able professors, 

 instructors, and assistants, some of 

 whom have taken degrees abroad. 

 English is a required study in each 

 course. The department of fishing in- 

 cludes in its regular curriculum such 

 subjects as methods of fishing, naviga- 

 tion, seamanship, shipbuilding, meteor- 

 ology, oceanography, applied mechan- 

 ics, applied zoology, applied botany, 

 mathematics, law, economics, book- 

 keeping, and elementary fisheries tech- 

 nology. The department of fisheries 

 technology has special instruction in 

 marine food products, marine industrial 

 products, bacteriology, applied mechan- 

 ics, chemistry, industrial chemistry, 

 chemical analysis, applied zoology, ap- 

 plied botany, law, economics, and book- 

 keeping. In the department of pisci- 



Photo by Hugh M. Smith 



A Trained Fishing Cormorant, with Its 

 Cage 



culture the subjects are fresh-water 

 culture, salt-water culture, protection 

 of fish, embryology, bacteriology, ocean- 

 ography, chemistry, applied zoology, 

 applied botany, law, economics, and 

 book-keeping. The institute has an 

 annual income from the government 

 amounting to $70,000, and several minor 

 funds. 



THE RELATIVELY LARGE NUMBER 

 OF FISHERMEN 



Complete statistics of the Japanese 

 fisheries have not been collated, and 

 many details that one would like to know 

 are not available, but enough is pub- 

 lished officially to show the vast extent 

 of the industry. The number of people 

 who are engaged in the different branches 

 is 3,000,000, as against about 215,000 

 in the United States. Nearly one-six- 



