4 MADRAS FISHERIES BULLETIN VOL. XII, 



9. Finance. — Results judged by this standard may be considered 

 eminently successful, for, apart from the industrial section com- 

 prising the cannery and fishcuring yards which will be reported 

 upon separately, large increases in profits mark the operations 

 of both the marine and fresh-water sections. The profit made by 

 the former of Rs. 32,409-3-7 in 1917-18 has been increased to 

 Rs. 74,722-2-3, chiefly by the better yield of the chank fishery, and 

 the large expansion under the head of zoological supply. An 

 increase of over Rs. 7,000 has also been obtained in the profits 

 from the sale of fishing rights in rivers, canals and tanks, con- 

 trolled and stocked by the department. Concurrently with these 

 gratifying increases has to be noted the fact that expenditure 

 actually shows a small decrease, that for 1918-19 (excluding 

 'Factories ') being Rs. 1,96,073-14-0 as against Rs. 1,96,146-8-6 in 

 the preceding year. It is not likely that such extremely favourable 

 finance will continue indefinitely; expenditure upon research, 

 education and socio-economics is likely to mount up rapidly in the 

 immediate future. Meanwhile it is a matter for congratulation that 

 the marine and fresh-water operations, even after bearing the 

 debit for the supervision and research charges of the whole depart- 

 ment, and excluding profits made in industrial experiments on the 

 West Coast, have been able not only to pay their way, but also to 

 show the substantial net profit of Rs. 35,447-0-7. 



Honorary Superintendent's Section. 



10. This section, administered directly by Sir Frederick 

 Nicholson, comprises practically all the work carried on by the 

 department on the West Coast and might indeed be termed the 

 West Coast Section. The sub-sections include the Beypore 

 cannery, oil and guano operations, the experimental fish-curing 

 yard at Tanur, the control of certain public fish-curing yards 

 transferred from the Salt and Abkari Department, and the import- 

 ant subjects of co-operation, education, and related socio-economic 

 work among the fishing classes. The year's operations are 

 surveyed by the Honorary Superintendent, and as this report is 

 printed in extenso as an annexure, there is little for me to say, 

 except to express my deep regret that the heavy burden entailed 

 by supervision of this work, has determined Sir F. A. Nicholson to 

 hand over charge at an earlv date. As one consequence of this 



