Letter — from Sir F. A. Nicholson, k.c.i.e., Honorary 



Director, Madras Fisheries. 

 Dated — Madras, the 21st July 1910. 



Submitting report of the work done in the Fishery Department for 

 the year ending 31st March 1910. 



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3. Personnel. — I remained in charge throughout the 

 period ; Mr. H. C. Wilson was also continuously on duty 

 as Piscicultural Expert ; Mr. James Hornell who was 

 temporarily appointed for a year in July 1908, came in 

 from I St July 1909 on a new contract as Marine Assistant 

 and Superintendent of the Pearl and Chank Fisheries : 

 Mr. V. Govindan, b.a., remained on duty as Personal 

 Assistant, but acted for six months as Superintendent of 

 Pearl and Chank Fisheries durino- Mr. Hornell's absence 

 on leave in Europe. The staft remained practically as 

 in 1 908-1 909. 



4. The work respectively done by the departmental 

 officers is abstracted as follows, it being premised that 

 merely salient items are mentioned and those only in 

 outline ; the bulk of the work cannot be put on paper in 

 a department dealing mainly with investigation and 

 experiment. During the year Mr. Wilson completed 

 arrangements at Avalanche for the rearing of trout, 

 obtained through Government an excellent consignment 

 of irideus trout ova from New Zealand, very successfully 

 hatched out the eofors and stocked all suitable streams on 

 the Nilgiris with fry, besides stocking the Avalanche and 

 Emerald Valley rivers with mature trout ; he also 

 continued his supervision of the upper waters of the 

 Bhavani and Moyar rivers. He inspected the larger 

 tanks of the Periyar system and the Periyar Lake in view 

 to fish culture ; also the larger tanks (Barur, etc.) of the 

 Salem district, and the great tanks of Daroji and 

 Cumbum with a similar view ; the reports embodying 

 his proposals have been laid before Government. He 

 completed a scheme for the annual propagation of hilsa 

 in the Coleroon which was sanctioned by Government 

 and put into execution, and the possibilities of transferring 

 hilsa to the West Coast were also experimentally 

 examined. The upper reaches of the Cauvery were 

 examined, and especially the Hoginkal area where an 

 annual and very destructive fish drive is said to take 



