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Work at Piel. 



Mr. Scott supplies his usual short article giving the 

 results of the fish hatching at Piel during the past season. 

 There is no change to record. The apparatus and the 

 supply of adult fish is the same as it has been for some 

 years, and the total number of young flat fish set free, 

 nearly 13-^ millions, is practically the same as on several 

 former occasions. The spawning in the Piel hatchery 

 appears to take place definitely a little later in the season 

 than that at Port Erin in the Isle of Man. I may remind 

 the Committee that at the Port Erin hatchery last season 

 over seven millions of young plaice were successfully 

 hatched and set free in the open sea. Both Fisheries 

 Authorities — that of Lancashire and that of the Isle of 

 Man — are to be congratulated on the co-operation of the 

 other in thus adding to the available stock of young flat 

 fish on the common fishing grounds. 



The four usual classes for fishermen were held this 

 year, thus enabling 45 men in the administrative county, 

 besides 13 others, to attend the instruction given by 

 Mr. Johnstone and Mr. Scott at the Piel Laboratory. A 

 change was made this year in regard to the fourth class 

 whereby, with the co-operation of the Lancashire 

 Education Committee, some instruction in Navigation as 

 applied to fishing vessels was given to a set of men 

 working on the Fleetwood trawlers with, it is said, very 

 satisfactory results. It is gratifying to learn that a 

 number of the students subsequently passed their Board 

 of Trade examinations, and the experiment of providing 

 this instruction in connection with the marine biology 

 classes will probably be repeated. 



A considerable part of Mr. Scott's time not required 

 for routine official duties, such as the fish hatching and 



