Norway, Japan, and Newfoundland are the three countries in the world where fisheries bulk so largely in the national economy that their development is accounted one of the major cares of Government. In Japan the primitive methods of fishing universally employed till recent years, have been elaborated and expanded in a wonderful manner during the past 20 years by the fostering care of the department charged with their improvement; the central and local Governments have been lavish in their expenditure and, as seen to-day in the enormous expansion of the Japanese fisheries and associated industries, this expenditure has been recouped to the nation many thousand-fold.