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another place where there were none, and a favourable 

 report was given regarding the resiilts. 



The work of transplanting shellfish was continued 

 and still further extended in 19U5. At the Joint Com- 

 mittee Meeting held in 3Iarch, a sum not exceeding £250 

 was voted for re-stocking shellfish beds. The allocation 

 of the money was left to the Scientific Sub-Commitee, who 

 decided to expend the folloAving sums. For re-stocking 

 mussel beds, Morecambe £75, Overton £15, Flookburgh 

 £15, Knott-end (Fleetwood) £5, Hambleton (near Fleet- 

 wood) £5, and Bardsea (near Ulverston) £2 10s. For 

 re-stocking cockle beds, Southport £15 and Lytham £5. 

 The total expended on mussels was, therefore, £117 10s., 

 or an increase of £42 10s. over the sum spent in 1904. 



At Morecambe, where the bulk of the money was 

 expended and the most important part of»the operations 

 were carried out, the transplanting began on April 12Hi 

 and finished on May 2nd. The work was done during 

 the neap tides and in the period of three Aveeks there were 

 nine working da^^s. On some of the da^'s sixtj'-four men 

 and thirty-two boats were employed. Over 4,0'j4 bags, 

 estimated at 'J47 tons of mussels, varying from one and 

 five-eighths to one and seven-eighths inches in length, 

 were removed and deposited in the " Einghole," from 

 which the mussels previously laid down had been removed. 

 To mark their high appreciation of the efforts of the 

 Committee to assist the shellfish industry, the Members 

 of the Morecambe Fishermen's Association passed a 

 resolution that no fishing of the transplanted mussels 

 would take place before November loth — a resolution 

 which was loyally kept. 



The following table shows the number of bags 

 removed each day : — 



