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although it has never received a single penny of subsidy from any source, 

 is now in full working order and provided with laboratories, pumping 

 machinery, tanks and other appliances suitable for carrying out fishery 

 experiments, and that if the States of Jersey think fit to take up the 

 question of Fishery Reform in a broad spirit, I shall be willing to place 

 the whole resources of my Biological Station at their disposal, free of 

 charge, for experimental work, during the first year at least, upon no- 

 other condition except of recoupment of the bare extra expenses thereby 

 entailed. Without such facilities, local fishery investigation would be 

 seriously handicapped and its value largely reduced, while if specially 

 provided as has been requisite elsewhere, an initial expenditure of 

 several hundreds of pounds would have to be incurred. Such expense 

 can be avoided in Jersey. 



Again, if such fishery reform be decided upon, I would gladly devote 

 the Museum Room of the Station to the purposes of a Fisheries Collection, 

 getting together and preparing at my own sole espense the necessary 

 exhibits, which moreover I would willingly throw open to fishermen free 

 of charge. 



This statement will therefore explain the obvious lowness of my 

 estimate, which of course is contingent upon the continuance of my 

 residence in Jersey, as otherwise the Biological Station would be devoted 

 to other uses. In the latter case, if the programme of fishery work 

 which I have sketched, were carried out, the estimate of cost would 

 require to be very considerably augmented. 



In closing this imperfect sketch of local fishery problems, I wish to 

 express my very grateful thanks to Dr. F. Wemyss Fulton, Scientific 

 Superintendent to the Fishery Board for Scotland; to Mr. Harald 

 Dannevig, Superintendent of the Dunbar Hatchery ; to Dr. Canu, 

 Director of the Station Agricole at Boulogne ; and to Mr. Robert A. 

 Dawson, Superintendent to the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Committee, for 

 the more than ordinary kindness with which they have rendered me 

 invaluable assistance in the preparation of this paper. 



