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to the Fishery Board for Scotland, but more suitable in 

 other respects to England, where strictly local fisheries 

 are more common than in Scotland, and where local needs 

 have to be more closely studied. The Council would, it 

 is hoped, be so representative as to unite the various 

 fisheries' interests and ensure the co-operation of the 

 different organisations, local and central, now working at 

 fishery problems. It is suggested that the Fishery 

 Council should meet monthly, or more often as occasion 

 may require, under the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, to formulate and control schemes of investi- 

 gation, to receive reports on work done on the three 

 coasts and co-relate observations, to recommend the 

 allocation of grants to the laboratories, and, generally, to 

 report to Government, through the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries, on the needs and results of the work carried 

 on by the steamers and the laboratories. 



International Co-operation. — In order to 

 secure uniformity of action between the Fisheries 

 organisations in England, Scotland and Ireland, 

 to prevent overlapping of areas and of investi- 

 gations, and to arrange as to any sub-division of 

 work between the three countries, or with foreign nations, 

 the Ichthyological Committee recommend that quarterly 

 conferences should be held between representatives of the 

 Fishery Council for England, the Fishery Board for 

 Scotland and the Irish Fishery Department. " The 

 meetings of this conference would give an opportunity to 

 the members of the three Central Authorities to compare 

 notes, to obtain information as to what is being done in 

 the three countries, and to make suggestions to the three 

 Central Authorities as to what particular work should be 

 undertaken by each" (Report, p. xv.). It is only to this 

 extent — Quarterly Conferences — that the Ichthyological 



