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condition once realised indicates to some extent the importance 

 of the knowledge gained, especially as to the extent to which 

 the inshore waters contribute to the catches of fishermen in extra- 

 territorial waters. Secondly, it demonstrates the national import- 

 ance of administration. In our case it happens that our district 

 is intimately related with the east coast of Scotland, as far to the 

 north as, say, the Tay. We may feel, and with right, that our local 

 protection produces a benefit locally, but the fact of the relation- 

 ship of such a general nature clearly points to administration 

 and legislation being national in character and scope. It has been 

 shown that the products of the northern current of the North 

 Sea tend to remain distinct from those of the southern current. 

 This ought to be kept in mind, for while it may be necessary to 

 consider detrimental changes in the one it might be found that 

 no action was necessary with respect to the other. 



Apart from the light which has been shed upon such general 

 questions, the experiments have yielded material used for extend- 

 ing our knowledge of growth and other problems of technical 

 importance, and with the aid of experimental work in the 

 laboratory for enquiries into problems of pure science dealing 

 with the more fundamental facts relating to the life of the sea. 



