SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. 193 



CLASSES, VISITORS, &c, AT PIEL. 

 By Andrew Scott. 



The usual four classes for fishermen were held at 

 Piel in the spring of 1912. The Education Committee 

 of the Lancashire County Council voted the necessary 

 sum of money which allows forty-five fishermen residing 

 in the Administrative Area to come to the establishment 

 and receive a course of instruction in Elementary 

 Marine Biology. They also permitted their County 

 Navigation Instructor to attend for a period of six 

 weeks. He gave instruction in Seamanship and 

 Navigation to the men from the Administrative Area 

 who were qualified to sit for the Board of Trade 

 certificates. The Southport Education Committee sent 

 four men, and the Blackpool Education Committee again 

 sent three men. There were no fishermen students from 

 Cheshire, Liverpool or Cumberland in 1912. A total of 

 fifty-two fishermen attended the classes and received 

 instruction in Marine Biology. Thirty-nine of them 

 also attended the course in Navigation. The men 

 selected to attend were divided into four classes — one of 

 fourteen, two of thirteen each, and one of twelve, as shown 

 by the following lists : — 



First Class, held March 11th to 22nd.— Harry 

 Cowperthwaite, Flookburgh; James Hill, Flookburgh ; 

 Richard Curwen, Snatchems, near Lancaster; Edward 

 Woodhouse, Morecambe; C. D. Brook, Blackpool; 

 T. Hayes, Blackpool; W. Owen, Blackpool; James 

 Johnson, Banks; Thomas Abram (Edwards), Banks; 

 William Wright, Marshside ; Robert Ball, Marshside ; 

 Richard Sutton, Marshside ; John Rigby, Southport. 



Second Class, held April 9th to 19th. — H. Curwen, 

 C. A. Darnell, W. Dewhurst, T. Newby, Henry 



