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practised eye of Mr. Scott. Tliis is only one of many 

 cases of new records to onr district that we owe to the 

 skill and faunistic knowledge of Mr. Scott. 



The important question of the pollution by sewage of 

 our shore fisheries, and especially shell-fish beds, is once 

 more exciting public attention. We have made contri- 

 butions to the subject in several previous reports, and we 

 now propose, in co-operation with Mr. Dawson and the 

 bailiffs, to make a thorough examination of the shell-fish 

 beds of our district, so that we may be in a position to 

 advise the Committee or the Public Health Authorities 

 upon any particular cases that may arise. 



Report of the Ichthy ological Research Committee. 



My own chief contribution to the Report this year is 

 a discussion of the International North Sea Investigation 

 and of the Report of the Ichthyological Research Com- 

 mittee lately issued as a Government Blue Book. The 

 international scheme is an interesting scientific investi- 

 gation undertaken in conjunction with certain foreign 

 nations for three years, and in regard to the practical 

 utility of which, for British, fisheries, opinion is much 

 divided. 



The Ichthyological Committee has produced a report 

 which consists partly of a discussion of the problems that 

 are most important at present to the British fishing 

 industries, and of the manner in which these problems 

 must be investigated, and partly of a comprehensive 

 scheme for organising sea-fisheries research throughout 

 the country. It is recommended that Government should 

 constitute a "Fishery Council for England*' consisting 

 of representatives of (a) the Board of Trade, (b) the Local 

 Sea-Fisheries Committees, and (cj the scientific men 

 directing the work of certain marine laboratories. Each 



