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2nd.—The experimental sea-fish hatching carried on 
last Easter by Mr. Scott at Piel and by myself at Port 
Erin; and in that connection the possibility of effecting 
some union for fishery purposes with the local authorities 
at the Isle of Man. I have pointed out in previous 
Reports the community of interests in the case of the 
Lancashire and the Manx sea areas. A Commission is 
now sitting, under the chairmanship of the Bishop of 
Sodor and Man, to consider and report upon the insular 
industries, and the first industry they are dealing with is 
the fisheries. This seems, then, to be an opportunity— 
which would be welcomed, I believe, by those concerned 
in the Isle of Man—for carrying out some joint arrange- 
ment whereby young fish should be equally and efficiently 
protected on both shores, shell-fish and lobster culture 
be encouraged and regulated, and sea-fish hatcheries be 
established. 
3rd.—The continuation of the work by Prof. Boyce and 
myself upon diseased conditions in Oysters and other 
shell-fish (see below, p. 26). It is interesting in this 
connection to note that the whole of my last year’s 
account of this subject, amounting to about twenty pages 
of our Fisheries Laboratory Report, has been translated 
and printed by the French Fisheries authorities in the 
‘Bulletin des Péches Maritimes”’ for August, p. 273, 
under the title of ‘‘ Recherches sur les Huitres.”’ 
In addition to the work recorded in this Report, during 
the year several samples of sewage and other effluents 
discharging from pipes into our estuaries have been 
examined by my assistants, and I have given my opinion 
to the Committee as to whether or not, under all the 
circumstances, these discharges could be considered as 
injurious to the fisheries of the neighbourhood. 
