Keport on the Investigations carried on in 189G 

 in connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 

 Laboratory at University College, Liverpool. 



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

 Mr. Andrew Scott, Fisheries Assistant. 



With Plates I— IV. 



CONTENTS. 



Intuoductiox. 



Part I. By Andrew Scott. 



Food in Fislies' Stomachs. 



Mussels . 



Bonchot Experiment. 



Mussel beds. 



Cockles and Cockle beds. 



Lobsters. 



Part II. By W. A. Herdman. 



Sea-Fish Hatching E.\periments. 

 The Oyster Investigation. 

 The ]\Iarine Laboratory at Piel. 

 Exi>lanation of Plates. 

 Appendix — Catalogue of the Sea- 

 Fisheries Museum. 



Introduction. 



In reporting upon the progress made during the past 

 year, in addition to a continuation of the usual work on 

 the food and reproductive condition of the fish and shell- 

 fish sent into the laboratory, and a further examination 

 of the cockle and mussel beds of Morecambe Bay, we 

 have to record the commencement of " bouchot " mussel 

 experiments, a good deal of additional work on oysters and 

 disease, and finally a new departure in the artificial fertili- 

 sation and hatching of young sea-fish. 



Mr. Scott has made several visits during the year, in 

 the steamer, to the off-shore fishing grounds, for the 

 purpose of getting further information regarding the 

 feeding habits of the edible fish. Visits have also been 

 made to the various spawning grounds in order to collect 



