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be worthy of the interests which this country has in the 

 department of sea-fisheries^" In a later publication^, when 

 dealing with the same subject, it was distinctly stated that, " It 

 has yet to be proved that the artificial hatching of sea-fishes, 

 even on a large scale, will be beneficial to the fisheries 

 generally ; yet the importance of the issue demands that a 

 thoi'ough trial be made." In view of the latter opinion, and 

 when opportunity offered, cordial support was given to the 

 experiment begun by the Fishery Board (previous to 1892) at 

 Dunbar. Until, indeed, the experiment is performed on a scale 

 sufficiently large to give reliable results, criticism on the 

 general question is unnecessary, though in some cases it may 

 be valuable in the suggestion of methods. 



1 W. G. M. Trawling Report, 1884-85, p. 379. 



-' Ibid. A Brief Sketch of the Scottish Fisheries, 1892, p. 15. 



