Report No. / (1920). 



ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 

 FISHERIES, MADRAS, FOR THE YEAR 1918-19. 



BY 



JAMES HORNELL, F.L.S., F.R.A.I., 



Director of Fisheries. 



MADRAS, the 2lst August 1919. 



To the Secretary to Government, 



Revenue (Special) Department, Fort St. George. 



I have the honour to submit the administration report of the 

 Department of Fisheries for the year ending 30th June 1919. 



Administration. 



2. Administration and Personnel. — With the sanction of Govern- 

 ment, the Honorary Director, Sir F. A. Nicholson, handed over 

 charge of the department to myself on 26th November 1918. 

 Fortunately he was willing to remain for some time longer in charge 

 of the West Coast fisheries stations, thereby greatly lightening the 

 difficulties which confronted me in taking up the mantle of so 

 exceptionally able an administrator. The department owes its 

 origin and present industrial and economic importance entirely to 

 his far-sighted initiative ; my endeavour must be to continue and. 

 if possible, amplify and extend the good work he has carried forward 

 so far and so successfully in .many directions. It is fortunate for 

 me that I have been associated with him in many of his most 

 important plans and experiments from the beginning, a fact that 

 renders my path more easy. 



3. Owing to the difficulties entailed by war conditions, officers 

 to take over my duties as Marine Assistant and Marine Biologist 

 were not at once available. In consequence I had to combine as 

 well as I could the duties of Director with those of these officers 

 till 1st March 1919, when Mr. J. H. Allan relieved me as Marine 

 Assistant from duties which at present include the superintendence 



