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bait question will be of great value to the fishing population, especially 

 as the department has authorized experiments along the same lines 

 at Canso and other points on the coast next season. 



It has been decided by the board of the station to have it removed 

 in the spring of 1905 to Gaspé Basin, and from Gaspé, as the centre, 

 a deep-sea investigation will be carried on in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 The only work of this kind done in these waters was by Sir Wm. 

 Dawson and Dr. J. F. Whiteaves, but the staff expect to supplement 

 the important faunistic records and enlarge very much the knowledge 

 of pelagic, littoral, mid-water and deep-sea resources of the estuary of 

 the St. Lawrence. 



