108 transactions liverpool biological society. 



Other Work. 



The experiments with marked fish are fully discussed 

 in Mr. Johnstone's article below, and the other sections of 

 this report dealing with the Parasites and the Food of 

 fishes, the Ichthyological notes and the Faunistic notes 

 explain themselves and require no further comment. 



As the present winter is a critical time in the history 

 of sea-fisheries research in this country — on account of the 

 approaching termination of the five-year period of the 

 International North Sea Investigations, and the hope 

 that on the conclusion of that work Government may be 

 willing to subsidise similar work on other parts of the 

 coast — I have thought it desirable to draw np, for the 

 information of the Committee, a statement of the present 

 situation, as it now appears to me. I print this article on 

 " Sea-Fisheries Research in England " with the view, not 

 of criticising any particular plan or piece of work, but of 

 pointing out that the present juncture seems to give an 

 opportunity of uniting all interests round the three coasts 

 of England in a comprehensive national scheme. 



W. A. Herdman. 



Fisheries Laboratory, 



University of Liverpool, 

 February 5th, 1907. 



