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The Hatchery and Laboratory at Piel. 



At the end of last year's Report, brief reference was 

 made to the establishment of a Sea-Fish Hatchery and 

 Station for experimental work at Roa Island, known to the 

 post-office as Piel, in the Barrow Channel, and about five 

 miles from Barrow. Piel is now connected with the 

 mainland by a railway embankment, and there are several 

 trains in the day, each way, from Barrow. The " Villa 

 Marina" (appropriate name) has been secured by lease 

 from the Furness Railway Co., by the Sea-Fisheries 

 Committee, and has been modified and adapted to the 

 new purposes — fisheries investigation and experiment — ■ 

 under the direction of the Scientific Sub-Committee. 

 Two rooms and a passage on the ground floor have been 

 thrown together to form a large, well-lighted laboratory, 

 36 by over 20 feet, capable of affording comfortable work- 

 ing space for six students or investigators. The former 

 lifeboat house, measuring 44 by over 16 feet, has been 

 connected with a room opening from the kitchen, and has 

 been fitted up with aquaria and hatching tanks. It will 

 be referred to in future as the tank-house: it is well 

 lighted by both side windows and sky-lights. 



The rest of the house gives plenty of accommodation 

 both for additional laboratories, if needed in the future, 

 and for residential requirements. In addition to the 

 kitchens and pantries, there are two public rooms, the 

 dining-room and the library, a photographic dark-room, 

 and three or four bed-rooms for the working naturalists. 

 Two rooms upstairs have been handed over to the resident 

 Scientific Assistant, Mr. Andrew Scott, and two to the 

 resident bailiff, Mr. H. Richardson. Other rooms remain 

 unfurnished, available for such purposes as may seem best 

 as requirements develop. 



