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expense might all be saved in the working f the concern 

 if some arrangement could be made with the Liverpool 

 Marine Biology Committee to put the two establishments 

 under the charge of a joint curator and share the expense. 

 The Biological Station would then be a most useful 

 adjunct to the hatchery, and the benefit derived from the 

 presence of the scientific specialists working at the station 

 would be very great. 



It is scarcely necessary to point out that the young fish 

 hatched would not be set free at Port Erin, but would 

 naturally be taken across in tanks by the fishery steamer 

 and set free on the Lancashire and Cheshire coasts upon 

 suitable ground ; so that this suggested erection of a 

 hatchery at Port Erin would be no case of the application 

 of funds to a foreign purpose or for the benefit of an area 

 outside the Committee's District, but would be merely 

 the making use, for our own purposes, of a suitable spot 

 on the nearest available rocky coast because we have no 

 sufficiently good ground on our own shores.* 



In concluding this section of the report dealing with 

 the fishes proper I would like to quote, and endorse, the 



* In regard to the probable cost of a Sea-Fish Hatchery, Dr. T. Wemyss 

 Fulton, scientific secretary to the Scottish Fishery Board, lias kindly given 

 me all possible information about the cost of the work and apparatus at 

 Dunbar so as to enable me to put down the following figures as a rough 

 approximation to the cost of a small establishment which would contain 10 

 hatching boxes, thus having a capacity altogether of about 40 to 50 millions 

 of cod eggs at a time : — 



Wooden house, say 30 ft. by 25 ft., concrete floor ... ... £50 



10 batching boxes at about £3 each ... ... ... ... 30 



Filtering apparatus. &c. ... ... ... ... ... 15 



Steam Pump, to throw say 1000 gals, per hour, say ... 25 



Boiler for this, say ... .. ... ... ... ... 60 



Piping, &c, say... ... ... ... ... ... ... 50 



Making pond, or enclosing creek for spawning fish, say ... 50 



If water power, or a windmill pump could be made use of, the total both 

 of initial and working expenses would of course be greatly reduced. 



