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territorial area in the Moray Firth was closed, and the Firth of 

 Forth and St. Andrews Bay areas were extended. Mr. W. L- 

 Calderwood acted as naturalist on board the Garland, and Mr. 

 Duncan Matthews superintended the course of the trawling 

 observations from the University of Edinburgh, collating and 

 tabulating the returns forwarded from the Garland. Mr. Brook 

 had charge of the work on the west coast, while Professor 

 Mcintosh continued his studies on the life-histories of food- 

 fishes at the St. Andrews Laboratory. Beyond the records of 

 the experimental trawling observations, the description of scien- 

 tific investigations forming Appendix F to the Fifth Report 

 does not contain much of great magnitude and importance. 

 Mr. Matthews contributes a second elaborate report on varieties 

 found among herrings from the east coast of Scotland. He also 

 gives an elaborate description of the skeleton of the herring. 

 Additional papers on the food of fishes are given, namely of the 

 whiting and young Gadidee. The statistics of fish taken by the 

 Garland, and landed by ordinary boats, are given in a number 

 of detailed tables occupying 157 pages. 



In 1886 certain departmental changes were made in the 

 English public service with respect to business connected with 

 the fisheries. The jurisdiction of the Home Office in respect of 

 salmon and fresh-water fisheries was transferred to the Board of 

 Trade by the Salmon and Fresh-water Fisheries Act, 1886. A 

 Fishery Department of the Board of Trade was organised, at 

 the head of which was placed an assistant secretary (Mr. G. 

 Swainston). Mr. Berrington and Mr. Fryer, the inspectors of 

 Fresh-water Fisheries at the Home Ofiice, were transferred to 

 the new department, and a third inspector (Mr. Malan), specially 

 for sea fisheries, was also appointed. The new department 

 publishes annually a return of statistics of sea-fish landed on the 

 coasts of the United Kingdom, and a Report on the Sea 

 Fisheries, in addition to the Report on Salmon and Fresh-water 

 Fisheries, which was continued. But the department has no 

 power to make scientific investigations, nor to make bye-laws or 

 regulations affecting the sea fisheries. 



The anomalous position of fishery affairs in England and 

 Wales has been since still further increased by the Sea Fisheries 

 Regulation Act of 1888, which is of a permissive character, and 

 allows the Board of Trade to create Sea Fisheries Districts on 



