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direct economic problems. From 1892 to 1895 

 the officers of the Association carried on very 

 extensive investigations at Grimsby into the 

 destruction of immature fish, and it is gratifying 

 to find the recognition the Select Committee of 

 1893' extended to the " facts and statistics" 

 submitted by the Scotch Fishery Board and by 

 the Association. 



In the summer of 1902, the Association, at the 

 request of His Majesty's Government, undertook 

 to carry out the English portion of the Inter- 

 national Investigation of the North Sea. The 

 scope of this enquiry is immense, and its import- 

 ance to the largest fisheries available for our 

 fishermen is incalculable. Some idea of the kind 

 of work accomplished has been furnished in the 

 preceding pages. 



What now seems to be most required, in addi- 

 tion to the maintenance of the work already in 

 progress, is a closer co-operation of these various 

 bodies with one another, and with the central 

 authority now established under the President 

 of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.* The 

 outlines of some such scheme seem plainly indi- 

 cated by the existing constitution of these various 

 * This co-operation now happily exists. 



