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I have also prepared, at the request of the Chairman, 
an outline scheme of work to be undertaken at Piel (see 
below, p. 9.), and a Memorandum on Technical Instruc- 
tion for Fishermen, from which I quote the following 
opinion :— 
‘“‘Instead of sending lecturers to various parts of the 
district, it would be better to bring parties of selected men 
from the different fishing centres to Liverpool to hear 
some fishery lectures in the University, where there are 
facilities for effective illustration, and to be shown matters 
practically in the Fisheries Laboratory and in the Museum. 
I should recommend, also, that these same men should 
be sent afterwards in the same way to our Marine 
Hatchery at Piel during the hatching season.” 
It has been suggested that a useful addition to our 
investigation during the last two years of the currents of 
the Irish Sea by means of drift bottles would be the 
liberation of large numbers of drift bottles at the spots 
where we find fish spawn. We propose to use empty 
wine bottles weighted with sand so as to float submerged, 
with our usual post-card attached to the inner end of the 
cork. The bottles are now being prepared, and will be 
set free from the steamer during the spawning season. 
I append to this Report :— 
(A.) A note on the Shad, by Mr. R. L. Ascroft. 
(B.) A guide to the very successful Sea-Fisheries 
Exhibition at University College, which was 
opened by Mr. John Fell on October 29th. 
W. A. HERDMAN. 
JANUARY, 1898. 
