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Pa d III. — Eleventh Annual Report 



SECTION D.— CONTEMPORARY WORK. 



AN ACCOUNT OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC FISHERY 

 WORK AND FISHERIES IN THIS AND OTHER COUN- 

 TRIES. By Dr T. Wemyss Fulton, F.R.S.E., Superintendent of 

 Scientific Investigations. 



In the following pages I have, as far as possible, summarised the infor- 

 mation available as to the condition of the sea fisheries in the more im- 

 portant countries which possess sea fisheries, and the various means 

 employed for their regulation and improvement. The amount of 

 literature — official and scientific — dealing with those subjects which now 

 reaches me is very considerable, and is increasing ; and this summary is 

 made possible only by the courteous co-operation of those engaged in 

 fishery work in this country and abroad. 



In perusing the reports and publications referred to, one is greatly im- 

 pressed with the energy displayed by the various Governments and fishery 

 departments in organising, regulating, and developing in every way 

 possible the sea fisheries under their charge. It would be difficult or im- 

 possible to point to any other important industry in which greater advances 

 in knowledge have been made during the last decade ; but a great deal 

 yet remains to be done, especially, perhaps, in organising a proper system 

 of fishery statistics. In several countries the statistics relating to the sea 

 fisheries are very imperfect. It would be of immense value in the future 

 to the fisheries of the North Sea, for example, if it were possible to devise 

 and carry out in the various countries concerned a system of statistics 

 which would show the quantities of the different kinds of fish annually 

 caught within its waters, with the numbers of men and boats employed. 



I have to thank many foreign fishery authorities for assistance in this 

 department ; not merely in supplying reports and publications referring 

 to their wurk, but in furnishing, promptly and readily, all information 

 in their power on points submitted to them. 



Among these I may mention M. Raveret-Wattel, Secretary to the 

 Societe d'Acclimitation de France ; Dr P. P. C. Hoek, Scientific Super- 

 intendent of Dutch Fisheries ; Captain Drechsel, the Superintendent of 

 Danish Fisheries, and the Naturalist, Dr Petersen ; Professor Pouchet, 

 the Director of the Concarneau Laboratory ; Professor Marion, the 

 Director of the Laboratoire d'Endoume, Marseille ; Captain Dannevig, 

 the Superintendent of the well-known hatchery at Flodevig ; Seiior 

 Rafael Gutierren Vela, of the Spanish Fisheries Department ; Sir 

 Charles Tupper, the High Commissioner for Canada ; Mr Nielsen, the 

 Superintendent of the Newfoundland Fisheries ; Professor Giglioli, of 

 Florence, Fishery Commissioner ; His Highness Prince Albert of 

 Monaco ; Baron Jules de Guerne and M. J ules Richard ; Drs Malm and 

 Lundberg, the Inspectors of Swedish Fisheries ; Dr Sauvage, Director 

 of the Marine Station, Boulogne-sur-Mer. Among those at home who 

 have been always willing to co-operate, I must specially mention Sir 

 Thomas F. Brady, the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries, and Professor 

 M'Intosh, F.R.S. ; also Mr W. L. Calderwood, until lately the Director 



