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results are practically similar to mine. This latter place I 
also regard as satisfactory. 
The Commercial Relaying. 
During November, and up to the present time, the Lune 
mussel fishermen have been relaying their mussels at these 
places—Overton, Sunderland Point, Crook Skear, and Plover 
Point. Several samples have been sent to me and these have 
proved to be satisfactory. At each place one man is entrusted 
with lead seals and an embossing plyers. Stamped seals are 
affixed to the bags contaming mussels which have been 
relaid in places recommended by the Fisheries Committee. 
The Enquiry at Lancaster. 
This was held on January 25th. The main question 
at issue was the choice of a site. I strongly recommended 
the adoption of one site, that near Overton, for all Lune 
Estuary mussels, first, because this place is better than the 
others in its distance from the main channel, and mainly 
because at one place there could be efficient supervision of 
the methods of relaying and the system of certification. Practical 
difficulties, on the part of the men, were pointed out, and the 
Enquiry adjourned without making an Order under the Shell- 
fish Regulations. There is to be a Conference later on. 
(3) The Ribble Estuary Mussel Fisheries. 
This was also an Enquiry under the Shell-fish Regulations, 
and it was of particular interest in some ways. The genesis of 
the Enquiry was a complaint from the local authority of 
Batley, Yorkshire, that “‘ Lytham mussels”? were conveying 
enteric fever, or at least were suspected of doing so. Samples of 
mussels from the Training Wall in the Ribble Channel, opposite 
Ansdell, were examined by the Bacteriologist of the Fish- 
mongers’ Company and reported as being unclean. 
