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



Director of Fisheries. 

 Dated — Madras, the loth June/ 13th July 19 14. 



I have the honour to submit my annual Fisheries 

 Report for 191 3-14. 



2. The staff remained as in 19 12-13 except that 

 Mr. V. Govindan, b.a., Personal Assistant to the 

 Honorary Director, was, by G.O. No. 1095, dated 13th 

 April 1 9 14, made a gazetted officer with the appellation 

 of Assistant Director and a salary of Rs. 400 per 

 mensem, the post of Personal Assistant being abolished, 

 while Mr. A. K. Menon, recently a Government of India 

 student in England in the oil and soap industries, was 

 appointed temporarily as Oil Chemist and posted to 

 this department on a pay of Rs. 250 per mensem (G.O. 

 ^o- 3553' dated 3rd December 1913). 



3. The principal operations in hand were — 



(i) The West Coast station for experimental 

 curing, canning and the production of fish oil and 

 guano ; 



(2) the oyster farm at Pulicat ; 



(3) the Sunkesula fish farm ; 



(4) the stocking of certain tanks ; 



(5) the preparation of important piscicultural 

 projects including the Tuticorin marine fish farm, the 

 Nellore carp and murrel farm, the Colair Lake hilsa 

 hatchery and murrel farm, the acclimatisation of tench 

 on the plains, etc. ; 



(6) the usual pearl and chank fishery ; 



(7) work by Mr. Wilson in anti-malarial operations 

 such as the breeding and distribution of larvicidal fish ; 



(8) the conservation of the upper waters of the 

 Bhavani and Moyar on the lower slopes of the Nilgiris ; 



(9) the conservation and development of the trout 

 in the upper Nilgiris ; 



(10) work by the Oil Chemist ; and 



(11) miscellaneous. 



4. Experimental station, Malabar. — This, as in 

 191 2- 1 3, was located at Tanur and Calicut ; remarks are 

 the same as in paragraph 6 in the report of that year. 



5. Fish-oil and guano. — The work mentioned in 

 paragraph 7 of last year's report was continued at Tanijr 

 and improved ; the percentage of first-class yellow oil 

 now obtained is larger than in 1912-13, and averages 



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