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cost, success is doubtful. The matter will be enquired 

 into ill London, etc., during my present visit to 

 England. 



19. Deep-sea fishing. — This has not yet been prac- 

 ticable, since the energies of the staff in initiation and 

 supervision are limited by the natural bounds of human 

 capacity, and the personnel is insufficient. Moreover, 

 as decided several years ago, it was thought advisable, 

 especially with a limited staff and scanty experience and 

 imperfect boat equipment, to endeavour to deal and to 

 show the best methods of dealing, with existing catches, 

 which amount to hundreds of thousands of tons, before 

 attempting to increase the bulk of the catches, A full- 

 sized department working upon intelligent, enterprising 

 material might have attempted both classes of operation 

 simultaneously, but a small staft, gradually feeling its 

 way, devising its own methods and gathering its expe- 

 rience from its own experiments, necessarily limited its 

 operations and took the line of least resistance and 

 difficulty. Hence, and for other reasons, the master- 

 fisherman, sanctioned in G.O. No. 822, dated 21st 

 March 191 2, has not yet been recruited, but this omis- 

 sion will, it is expected, be supplied during the current 

 year and a scheme for his employment has already been 

 drawn up for submission to Government. The new 

 curing station at Beypore with the shelter for sea-going 

 boats provided in the river estuary will enable us to 

 turn attention to the catching as well as to the curing 

 branches of our work. 



20. Pisciculture — Fresh-water. — Mr. H. C. Wilson 

 continued to be Piscicultural Expert throughout the 

 year and, while supervising practical operations on the 

 Nilgiris and at Sunkesula fish farm, toured extensively 

 in eight other districts for the preparation of projects 

 and, very specially, on anti-malarial duty. 



21. Sunkesula fish farm. — In this farm the operations 

 of the previous year were continued and some sixty 

 miles of the Kurnool-Cuddapah Canal were stocked 

 with young fish, while the experiments in the breed- 

 ing and sale of murrel were carried a stage further. 

 Mr. Wilson reports as follows : — 



" 9. General 7vork. — The general work at the Sunkesula fish farm 

 progressed during the year, the new Superintendent taking more 

 interest in the detail work, keeping the screens in order, etc. 



