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to select sites for several new Fishery Demonstration Stations 

 under consideration. The initiation of the Marine Assistant into 

 his duties necessitated several tours to the coast towns of Tinnevelly 

 and Ramnad. Calcutta was also visited in company with the 

 Marine Assistant to inspect steam-trawlers under construction. 

 Altogether I spent 148 out of 216 days on tour after becoming 

 Director on 27th November 1918. 



General. 



8. Limitation of Expansion. — The limitations placed upon expan- 

 sion consequent upon war conditions continued throughout the 

 greater part of the period under review ; all existing lines of work 

 pursued a normal course with results much the same as last year. 

 It was not found possible to extend operations on any considerable 

 scale. The only important departures consisted in the taking over 

 on 1st June 1919, from the Salt and Abkari Department, of a num- 

 ber of fish-curing yards on the West Coast to be run on model lines, 

 in the reorganization of the old Aquarium taken over from the 

 Museum authorities as per G.O. No. 387. Home (Education), dated 

 27th March 1919, and the initiation of a scheme for the education 

 of men to become eventually the teachers in elementary schools in 

 fishing villages, with a special curriculum appropriate to their 

 occupational requirements. With a return to more normal condi- 

 tions several important dormant propositions have been revived, 

 and submitted for the consideration of Government, together with 

 others entirely new. If we can obtain sufficient subordinates, the 

 expansion of our activities should be rapid within the next few 

 years, but unfortunately this presents great difficulty ; indeed I fear 

 it will be unsurmountable till we have a technical institute or 

 rather Fishery College, where the men we so urgently need will be 

 able to obtain education in the theory and technique of their 

 profession. An University education is a good foundation whereon 

 to build ; alone, it is insufficient equipment for a fishery expert, 

 even of subordinate rank. 



The scientific assistance and advice of the department have 

 been again in demand during the year by officers concerned with 

 fishery development in several other States, notably Burma, Baroda, 

 Travancore, and the Seychelles ; zoological collections have also 

 been furnished to researchers in various countries including 

 Australia, the United States and Java. 

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