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require training either in Japan or in the hatcheries when 

 once established in this country, or at the proposed 

 Madras experimental ponds. 



5. What I now ask Government in this letter is that, 

 if so pleased, they will sanction the general idea of carp, 

 etc., hatcheries and the proposed utilization of inland 

 waters, and the acquisition on lease of some location in 

 Madras where my Assistant can (reside and) conduct 

 his important experiments ; he is now engaged, inter 

 alia, in searching for some such place, and I vvill report 

 further on receipt of the general order now sought. 

 The experimental station at Coimbatore can doubtless 

 be carried out by the authorities of the Agricultural 

 station there. 



Order— No. 733, Revenue, dated ist April 1907. 



With his letter of the 28th February IQ07, which 

 was disposed of in G.O. Mis. No. 664, Revenue, dated 

 20th March, Sir Frederick Nicholson submitted his 

 report on fisheries in Japan. In this report Sir Frederick 

 Nicholson has given the result of a ten weeks' tour in 

 Japan last year and has brought together a large amount 

 of information regarding the progress of fishery work 

 and its modern methods of development, especially by 

 Government institutions, in that country. 



2. In the letters read above Sir Frederick Nicholson 

 summarizes the proposals, which appear also in para- 

 graphs 186 — 212 and 216 — 224 of the report on fisheries 

 in Japan, for giving practical effect to the results of his 

 enquiry. These proposals are as follow : — 



(i) The establishment of an experimental Fishery 

 Station on the West Coast preferably at Tellicherry 

 with the objects and aims mentioned in paragraphs 186 

 to 194 of the report ; 



(2) the establishment of carp and other fresh- 

 water fish-hatcheries in suitable localities and as a 

 preliminary measure thereto, the employment of 

 M.R.Ry. V. V. Ramanan to examine the proposed sites 

 of the hatcheries and the inland waters to be stocked as 

 well as to conduct experiments in Madras in small 

 culture ponds in breeding carp and other fish and 

 observing facts connected with their life-history ; and 



