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expense might all be saved in the working of the concern 
if some arrangement could be made with the Liverpool 
Marine Biology Committee to put the two establishments 
under the charge of a joint curator and share the expense. 
The Biological Station would then be a most useful 
adjunct to the hatchery, and the benefit derived from the 
presence of the scientific specialists working at the station 
would be very great. 
It is scarcely necessary to point out that the young fish 
hatched would not be set free at Port Erin, but would 
naturally be taken across in tanks by the fishery steamer 
and set free on the Lancashire and Cheshire coasts upon 
suitable ground; so that this suggested erection of a 
hatchery at Port Erin would be no case of the application 
of funds to a foreign purpose or for the benefit of an area 
outside the Committee’s District, but would be merely 
the making use, for our own purposes, of a suitable spot 
on the nearest available rocky coast because we have no 
sufficiently good ground on our own shores.* 
In concluding this section of the report dealing with 
the fishes proper I would like to quote, and endorse, the 
* [In regard to the probable cost of a Sea-Fish Hatchery, Dr. T. Wemyss 
Fulton, scientific secretary to the Scottish Fishery Board, has kindly given 
me all possible information about the cost of the work and apparatus at 
Dunbar so as to enable me to put down the following figures as a rough 
approximation to the cost of a small establishment which would contain 10 
hatching boxes, thus having a capacity altogether of about 40 to 50 millions 
of cod eggs at a time :— 
Wooden house, say 30 ft. by 25 ft., concrete floor ... on £50 
10 hatching boxes at about £3 each ... id ae wae 30 
Filtering apparatus. &c. obn , ba 15 
Steam Pump, to throw say 1000 sles per naa say ee 25 
Boiler for this, say re if S63 eis ae BBs 60 
Piping, &c., say.. ae apc os sts 50 
Making pond, or ontlonne ait for 3 spawning fish, say ... 50 
If water power, or a windmill pump could be made use of, the total both 
of initial and working expenses would of course be greatly reduced, 
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