Eeport on the Investigations carried on in 1895 

 in connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 

 Laboratory at University College, Liverpool. 



By Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, P.E.S., and 

 Mr. Andrew Scott, Fisheries Assistant. 



With Plates I.— V. 



Introductory. 



The work that can be done in the application of Zoological 

 Science to the local Fishing industries seems spreading 

 and increasing in amount each year ; and the work of the 

 past year, as may be seen from this Eeport, has opened 

 up much fresh ground, and has been carried on not only 

 in Liverpool and at Sea but also partly at Port Erin and 

 to a slighter extent in the neighbourhood of Piel Island, 

 near Barrow ; and so has extended over the various parts 

 of our northern district of tlie Irish Sea. In fact we may 

 be regarded now as having, planned out, if not yet 

 completely established, a system of Fisheries investigations 

 which, although still on a small scale, will be able to 

 cover the ground effectively and to cope adequately with 

 the subject. 



The central laboratory at University College, Liverpool, 

 the Marine Biological Station at Port Erin, the steamer 

 at sea, and the new branch laboratory now being fitted 

 up at Piel Island can subdivide the work between them, 

 and so render possible a wider range of observations. 

 The finer microscopic and laboratory work, the com- 

 parison of results and the drafting of reports can only be 

 carried on at a place like the Liverpool laboratory where 



