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coast of England (East, vSouth and West) is treated 

 separately, and each, it is suggested, should have its 

 own steamer for special investigations and its own 

 marine laboratory, existing institutions being made use 

 of whenever possible. If these recommendations of this 

 Committee, on which were representatives of several 

 Government departments, and of the Central Fisheries 

 Authorities of England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as 

 independent scientific men, are carried out in a liberal 

 spirit by the Government, they will go far, I believe, to 

 remedy the existing unsatisfactory state of affairs, and to 

 bring about a national scheme of fisheries investigation 

 centring in the Board of Trade, but representing all 

 interests — official, trade and scientific — and conducing to 

 the prosperity of an important industry. 



W. A. HEliDMAN. 



University College, Liverpool, 

 January, 1903. 



