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with young soles of the same size ; as to whether 

 " nurseries " are already overstocked with young fish, or 

 may with advantage be replenished as the result of arti- 

 ficial hatching operations. 



" If public opinion has advanced, and Fisheries 

 administration is more enlightened now than it was fifty 

 or twenty years ago, let us see to it that the reproach of 

 the nineteenth century is not continued on into the 

 twentieth. I submit this Scheme to the Committee in 

 the hope that they will authorise its immediate adoption 

 on board the steamer, with a view to starting the new 

 century well by having reliable and adequate monthly 

 Fishery Statistics taken for the first time in January, 

 1901." ' k W. A. Herdman." 



" Suggested Scheme of Fishery Observations. 

 " Regular Monthly Observations (as far as possible 

 during the first week or ten days of each month) should 

 be made on the following five Stations — as shown on a 

 Chart marked by Mr. Dawson : — 



Station 1. — Blackpool Closed Ground. 

 Station 2. — A similar area a little further South. 

 Station 3. — Mersey Shrimping Ground, Burbo Bk. 

 Station 4. — Outside N.W. Lightship to 20 fath. line. 

 Station 5. — Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. 

 " Stations 1 and 2 are important for comparison with 

 one another ; Station 3 gives information on shrimping 

 and immature fish questions ; Station 4 is on interesting 

 ground, just outside the territorial waters ; and Station 5 

 is an important trawling area in the newly amalgamated 

 Welsh portion of the District. 



" The Observations made should include : — 



I. Drags with the fish trawl and shrimp trawl. 

 II. Plankton collections with surface and bottom 

 tow -nets. 



