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some experience of feeding marine animals I assert that 
this could ‘not be done at any cost. The Professor talks 
of offal, but though we may speak of certain animals as 
scavengers, the various inhabitants of the sea are so fitted 
into one another that they are mutually dependent on one 
another, and for one form to feed on what is the natural 
offal of other species is a very different thing from pitching 
a heap of what we are pleased to call offal into the sea. 
Marine animals are dainty feeders in their own line. 
Professor Herdman’s creek would soon become a filthy 
abomination if offal were thrown in to feed his shrimps. 
It is a costly job to find marine animals suitable food on a 
small scale, when their value as exhibits is many hundred 
fold what it could be as food; on a commercial scale, and 
one of such vast magnitude, it is impossible. It is really 
difficult to believe that the Professor is not poking fun at 
the Council. But itis similar to the many Jules Verne-like 
proposals set forth solemnly in the fishery reports. 
Shrimps are not found of marketable size in little creeks. 
Existing as they do in myriads along our coasts, no 
inhabitant of the sea seems to require more of the 
invigorating influence of the mighty tides that sweep 
along our borders. In the Aquarium we found that of all 
edible creatures we could keep the ‘smallest weight of 
shrimps in proportion to water, and they required a heavy 
circulation to keep them healthy. 
