SEA FISHERIES in 



Cullercoats, Piel, Liverpool, and Aberystwyth. Several of the 

 District Committees have steamers which could be utilised, 

 either partly or entirely, for observations at sea. For the 

 assistance of all these bodies, for the provision of research for 

 the development of the salmon and fresh-water fisheries, and 

 for grants to local institutions for experimental work on and in 

 connection with trade products, a beggarly £6,000 a year is 

 proposed. But what is the worst feature in this preposterous 

 scheme of the Board's is the manner in which the local 

 authorities have been ignored in its preparation. One would 

 have thought that the rejection of the Board's fatuous scheme 

 of 191 1 would have indicated the advisability of consulting 

 those authorities having practical experience in the working of 

 detailed schemes of fishery research. Fortunately Lord Richard 

 Cavendish, the Chairman of the Development Commission, is a 

 man of considerable acumen, and indications are not wanting 

 that steps are being taken by the local authorities to enlighten 

 him as to the true significance of the Board's scheme. When 

 promotion in the Civil Service is dependent on the nepotic 

 vagaries of peripatetic Cabinet Ministers, it becomes imperative 

 in the public interest closely to scrutinise schemes which 

 involve the expenditure of large sums of public money. 



