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development around the coast generally is much to be 

 desired. 



(2) Expert Staff. — In the first place a staff of 

 trained assistants is required at the principal fishing 

 ports to deal with the returns obtained from the boats, to 

 inspect the catches landed and to select samples for 

 further examination. Certain observations can be made 

 and certain particulars noted by such assistants carrying 

 on statistical work at the ports, but it is not suggested 

 that they need be laboratory biologists. Then, secondly, 

 the samples selected, along with the statistical and any 

 other information, should be sent for more detailed 

 examination to the recognised marine laboratory of that 

 coast, there to be dealt with by the Director and his 

 scientific assistants. 



(3) Laboratories. — The Ichthyological Committee 

 point out that " the fishery interests of the East Coast, the 

 South Coast and the West Coast of England, respectively, 

 are, to some extent, distinct," and they propose that these 

 three coasts should be treated independently, each having 

 it own marine laboratory, staff of workers, surveying 

 vessel, and representatives on the Central Authority. It 

 is recommended that, if possible, arrangements be made 

 so that (1) the Marine Biological Association Laboratory 

 at Plymouth be officially recognised as the headquarters 

 for scientific fisheries work on the South Coast, say from 

 the Estuary of the 'Thames to the Bristol Channel ; 

 (2) that the Liverpool Marine Biological and Fishery 

 Laboratories be similarly the centre for work on the 

 West Coast ; and (3) that a laboratory be established to 

 perform similar functions on the East Coast. If the new 

 Marine Biological Station which is now being erected at 

 Cullercoats, in the Northumberland Committee's District, 

 had then been in existence, there can be no doubt that the 



