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2nd. — The experimental sea-fish hatching carried on 

 last Easter by Mr. Scott at Piel and by myself at Port 

 Erin ; and in that connection the possibility of effecting 

 some union for fishery purposes with the local authorities 

 at the Isle of Man. I have pointed out in previous 

 Eeports the community of interests in the case of the 

 Lancashire and the Manx sea areas. A Commission is 

 now sitting, under the chairmanship of the Bishop of 

 Sodor and Man, to consider and report upon the insular 

 industries, and the first industry they are dealing with is 

 the fisheries. This seems, then, to be an opportunity — 

 which would be welcomed, I believe, by those concerned 

 in the Isle of Man — for carrying out some joint arrange- 

 ment whereby young fish should be equally and efficiently 

 protected on both shores, shell-fish and lobster culture 

 be encouraged and regulated, and sea-fish hatcheries be 

 established. 



3rd. — The continuation of the work by Prof. Boyce and 

 myself upon diseased conditions in Oysters and other 

 shell-fish (see below, p. 26). It is interesting in this 

 connection to note that the whole of my last year's 

 account of this subject, amounting to about twenty pages 

 of our Fisheries Laboratory Keport, has been translated 

 and printed by the French Fisheries authorities in the 

 "Bulletin des Peches Maritimes " for August, p. 273, 

 under the title of "Kecherches sur les Huitres." 



In addition to the work recorded in this Eeport, during 

 the year several samples of sewage and other effluents 

 discharging from pipes into our estuaries have been 

 examined by my assistants, and I have given my opinion 

 to the Committee as to whether or not, under all the 

 circumstances, these discharges could be considered as 

 injurious to the fisheries of the neighbourhood. 



