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A2Jpendiees to Fourth Annual Report 



experiments conducted in this country, and by the interest manifested in 

 this question by the Scottish Fishery Board, a great impulse will be given 

 to the development and extension of our fishing industry. We want more 

 and more to see the application of scientific methods to the development 

 and improvement of our great commercial enterprises. It is astonishing 

 how for centuries the same methods have obtained in the fishing industry, 

 but let us hope that we have entered on a new and prosperous phase of 

 this great national problem. "We must look more and more to scientific 

 progress to point the way in which, and to afford the means by which 

 improvements are to be effected. It has been said, and that truly, that 

 ' scientific progress has at all times shown itself to be the surest lever for 

 * the elevation of our race from its misery,' 



