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The following Papers and Reports were read : — • 



1. On British Fisheries' Investigations and the International Scheme. 

 By Professor W. C. McIntosh, M.D., F.R.S. 



Before referring to the proposals for the International Scheme of Fisheries' 

 Investigations in the North Sea, the history of Fisheries' Investigations in our 

 country may be noticed. Few of note occurred before 1883, and more real pro- 

 gress had been made in regard to the Salmon than the Sea Fisheries, mainly 

 because individual effort could be carried further in the former than the latter. 

 Yet it was rather a lack of opportunity than of interest which was responsible for 

 this condition of things. The Royal Commission of 1883, presided over by Lord 

 Dalhousie, made the first attempt to grapple with the scientific aspects of the 

 question, and a series of observations were carried out by the same eye and em- 

 bodied in the Report. One result was that a scheme was drawn up, three areas of 

 the sea closed, and arrangements made for a series of test-experiments upon which 

 future legislation — including closures — was to rest. The important duty of carrying 

 out these experiments was entrusted to the Scotch Fishery Board", and special 

 instructions were given as to the kind of ship and the kind of trawl necessary for 

 their success. Unfortunately, the Scotch Board followed methods of its own, so 

 that instead of continuing and extending the observations of 1884, a new set was 



