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entrusted, as I have indicated above, to the local Sea- 

 Fisheries Committees. 



In addition to the investigation of the bottom by 

 dredging and trawling, the plankton in the surface and 

 other waters would require periodic examination. We 

 have discussed this fully during the past summer, both at 

 Port Erin and Liverpool, and have had the advantage of 

 opinion of Mr. E. T. Browne, who has had 



liearing the 



L.M.B.C. District, 



much expevience of late years in plankton work. In 

 order to get an adequate idea of the distribution of the 

 minute floating organisms of our seas, we should certainly 

 require to have weekly observations (or possibly even 

 twice a week) taken, at both surface and bottom, at 

 certain specified stations round the coast, of which we 

 should recognise four as being necessary in the Irish Sea, 



