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fishery problems presented in this new area will afford the scientific 

 staff increased opportunities for achieving practical results. The 

 pioblems offered for solution are unquestionably of the utmost value 

 to the country, as the oyster and lobster fisheries are of prime impor- 

 tance. The fishery operations referred to, carried on in this portion 

 of the Gulf of St. Lawrence are conducted in the waters close to the 

 selected site on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



""he Biological Station at the Mouth of the Go-Home Eivek — 



Georgian Bay. 



This Station was established, under the sanction of the Dominion 

 Government in 1901, by Sir Louis Davies, at that time Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries, with a grant of $1,500 per annum for equipment 

 and maintenance. Its management is entrusted to a committee of 

 members of the scientific faculties of the University of Toronto, of 

 which the President of Victoria College is chairman. The work is 

 under the supervision and approval of the Dominion Commissioner of 

 fisheries. Dr. Prince. 



The headquarters of the station is a permanent building located on 

 Island 121 in Go-Home Bay, The floor space is divided into a large 

 laboratory and four smaller rooms. The small rooms are used as 

 director's room, store room, photographic room and museum. The 

 large room is provided with work tables for biological investigation and 

 for the plotting of the hydrographie survey and will furnish accom- 

 modation for ten workers. The centre is occupied by a large table 

 with zinc tray and sinks at either end, and aquaria of various sizes con- 

 structed of glass and zinc. The station is also furnished with boat 

 house, dock, boats, fishing and plankton nets, and also microscopes, 

 glassware, reagents, and other apparatus for scientific investigation. 



A large hatching pond very favourable for the propagation of the 

 small mouthed black bass has been prepared, and a large number of 

 adult fish placed therein, whose habits are being ytudied during the 

 spawning season of the present year. Other ponds are in course of 

 construction and when complete will afford opportunity for the study 

 of the more important species of fishes of commercial value. 



The primary object of the station is scientific work, but beyond 

 ^its scientific value it is of great general value as a means of obtain- 

 ing knowledge available for economic purposes. For the pursuit of 

 this object the location affords unusual advantages. We have swamp 

 and inclosed lake formations, with abundance of aquatic vegeta- 

 tion in the inner waters, there being on one of the islands no 

 less than seven small lakes. There are several inlets with clear water 

 and sandy or gravelly bottom. A large number of outer reefs 



