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and submit to the Council a statement showing the chief lines of 

 research proposed to be undertaken during the forthcoming year, 

 together with an estimate of the cost of the same. The Council 

 should review these statements and use them as a basis for allocation 

 of the annual grants. 



(5) The Central Council itself should not as a rule establish its 

 own laboratories and undertake the direction of research. This 

 should be left as at present with the Central Authorities concerned ; 

 but this should not be taken to mean that the Council would be 

 excluded from caUing for special investigations on certain points 

 and appointing, paying and terminating the agreements with 

 experts for these special purposes. 



(6) The Chairman of the Council should satisfy himself that 

 the staffing, equipment and situation of laboratories, including 

 the laboratories of the Central Departments, applying for grants 

 for scientific research, are adequate for the purposes of such re- 

 search. He should personally, or through a duly qualified deputy, 

 visit at least once annually such laboratories and report to the 

 Council the result of his observations. 



(7) Nothing in the foregoing shall be held to prevent the Council 

 from itself drawing up schemes of investigation and forwarding 

 the same to appropriate institutions for detailed research. 



(8) The term scientific investigations shall in the above be held 

 to include investigations into trade statistics. Greater uniformity 

 in the publication of official fishery statistics should be arranged 

 forthwith. 



(9) The Central Council should have power to appoint trade 

 agents (as is already done by certain foreign countries), either at 

 home or abroad where such appointment is likely to advance the 

 interests of the British sea fisheries. 



(10) The Council should be consulted in all matters connected 

 with fishery education, above the primary or elementary stage, 

 this subject being dealt with in greater detail below. 



(11) The Council should acquire a Reference Library on all 

 matters of interest to the trade. 



(12) The Council should have power to assist in the establishment 

 of a permanent Fisheries Museum, in which should be deposited 

 inter alia models of ancient and modern fishery apparatus, specimens 

 of trade products and by-products. This museum should not only 

 serve to interest and educate the public, but should also be of 

 assistance to specialists engaged in fishery inquiries. The Chairman 

 of the Council should, ex officio, be a member of the governing 

 body of this museum. 



