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exploited and policed—-the regulation and administra- 
tion would be the same as over the adjoining English and 
Welsh coasts. We should then have in this northern 
part of the Irish Sea a natural sea-fisheries district ad- 
ministered by one Authority, having one steamer for 
police regulation and another for scientific investigation, 
having central laboratories in the University of Liver- 
pool, with Marine Stations and Hatcheries at several 
distant points, probably in the north of Lancashire (Piel), 
in the Isle of Man (Port Erin), and somewhere on the 
coast of Wales. The co-relation between such labora- 
tories and those on the other coasts of England, and again 
between Mngland, as a whole, and Scotland, Ireland and, 
it may be, other Countries, might well be as was outlined 
in the Report of the Ichthyological Committee. If such 
a national scheme of fisheries co-ordination were carried 
out it would lead, in addition to increased efficiency of 
administration, to a marked increase in the scientific 
knowledge of our fishing grounds, the absence of which 
successive Select Committees and Conferences have had 
to deplore. 
W. A. HERDMAN. 
Tur University, Liverrootn, 
January, 1904. 
