30 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Cliadwick reports to tlie Committee as follows : — 



Curator's Report. 



" The work of the Station has been carried on steadily 

 and successfully throughout the year, and an average 

 number of students have availed themselves of the accom- 

 modation and facilities provided for the study of living 

 marine animals and plants. The Easter party was this 

 year more than usually successful, and much good work 

 was done. 



" In view of the addition of fish hatching and culture 

 to my curatorial duties, I have devoted a good deal of 

 time this year to the acquisition of knowledge of fishery 

 matters. During the month of March I spent a fortnight 

 at the Sea-fish Hatchery of the Lancashire and Western 

 Sea Fisheries Committee at Piel, Barrow, and, under the 

 able guidance of Mr. Andrew Scott, carefully studied the 

 apparatus and methods used there in hatching the eggs of 

 sea-fish. In trying to gain information from local fisher- 

 men at Port Erin I have been less successful. Owing 

 partly to their lack of interest in anything that does not 

 directly affect the capture and sale of fish, and partly to 

 jealousy of each other, they can only with difficulty be 

 induced to give information, and their statements are 

 often vague. One of them, F. Watterson, was, however, 

 good enough to keep the record given below, of the fish 

 taken by one boat during what is known as the " winter 

 fishing " of 1900-01. Fishing was frequently interrupted 

 by stormy weather, and the number of fish caught was 

 said to be below the average. 



"Fishing with a drag net from the shore, locally known 

 as ' trawling/ was carried on, as in previous years, early 

 in October, but always after nightfall. On several occa- 

 sions large numbers of the Saithe or Coal-fish (Gadus virens) 



