No 1 (1922) ADMINISTRATION REPORT, 1920-21 3 



The profits derived from the various semi- commercial sections 

 of our work are as follows : — 



Losses were sustained from — 

 Inshore fishing experiments 

 Tanur Experimental Station 

 Experimental Cannery 



ES. 



563 



... 136 



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Total ... 2,578 



In the case of the cannery no real loss has probably takeu place, 

 the deficit being due to the large stock of unsold goods being esti- 

 mated at only two-thirds their selling value. The loss on the Tanur 

 yard is due to the same unavoidable cause as militated against 

 success so adversely in the case of the cannery, namely, the extra- 

 ordinary scarcity of sardines during the 1920-21 season. 



5. The Directors work apart from administration. — This has been 

 less than usual owing to my having been on leave for the first 4-J 

 months of the year and to the increase of work due to the reduced 

 assistance I receive from the Personal Assistant whose time is too 

 much occupied with account work. While on leave I was deputed 

 to study fishery conditions in .Norway and Denmark and spent over 

 two months on this investigation. The results are embodied in a 

 lengthy report now in the press. Perhaps the most important 

 conclusion arising from this work was the impression gained of the 

 suitability of the Danish seine for introduction to Indian waters. 

 More powerful engines for fish-catching are urgently required and 

 as it appears that steam-trawling on the Madras coasts is too 

 expensive a method under present conditions and too much hampered 

 by other disabilities, the value of a powerful fishing method free 

 from the disadvantages attendant on steam-trawling cannot well be 

 overestimated. 



Besides this, I wrote a comprehensive guide to the common 

 shell-fish of South India, to serve as a companion hand-book to 

 the collections of shells intended for supply to secondary schools. 

 The Director of Public Instruction made the writing of this guide a 



