Excerpt from Papers From 1899, Vol. 1: Relating Chiefly to the Development of the Madras Fisheries BureauFor it was soon found that while the local enquiry readily yielded a mass of fairly obvious facts relative to indigenous methods and conditions, yet that a far deeper and more lengthy investigation was needed to yield answers to the questions why such methods prevailed what were the conditions, whether of nature or of society, which limited or compelled these methods what practical improvements in existing methods could be devised and inculcated as sure and certain; how such improvements could be introduced and popularised what developments, hitherto undreamed of, piscicul tural, industrial, commercial, scientific, economic and social - were both desirable and feasible.Nothing but such continuous industrial experiment as put the investigator into the position of the fisherman and curer, taught him the natural, economic, and social difficulties of their business, and led him by superior knowledge and power of research into the paths of practical improvement, could be of real worth; it is only the intimate knowledge gained by continuous practice under the conditions of the country that could produce suggestions ofpermanent value. This will, in a measure, be evident from the papers read as a series, which not only display the changes in idea and method which have characterized the work of the department but the mis takes which were necessarily made by inexpert enquirers when investigating an industry of which the conditions and limitations imposed by nature and by social and economic history were absolutely untested.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.