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REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATIONS CARRIED 

 ON DURING 1916 IN CONNECTION WITH THE 

 LANCASHIRE SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY AT THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, AND THE SEA-FISH 

 HATCHERY AT PIEL, NEAR BARROW. 



EDITED BY 



Peofessor W. A. HERDMAN, F.R.S., 

 Honorary Director of the Scientific Work. 



Contents. page 



1. Introduction 



2. Summary of Work at the Piel Laboratory. By A. Scott 



3. Summary of Work from the Liverpool Laboratory, on Shell-fish 



Cultivation, &c. By J. Johnstone 



4. Summary of Intensive Plankton Work. By W. A. Herdman 



A. Scott, and H. M. Lewis 



5. The Exploitation of Inshore Fisheries. By W. A. Herdman 



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INTRODUCTION. 



In accordance with the wishes of the Committee, as 

 expressed in their Minute of 18th November, 1915, I once 

 more submit an abbreviated form of Report giving merely 

 a summary of the scientific work in connection with Sea- 

 Fisheries investigations which it has been possible to carry 

 on during the past year under War conditions, reserving the 

 detailed observations, the tables of statistics, diagrams, curves 

 and charts with which these Annual Reports have usually 

 been illustrated to be produced on some future occasion, 

 when more normal work has been resumed in our District. 



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