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SEA-FISH HATCHING AT PORT ERIN IN 1905. 

 By W. A. Herdman. 



As the Reports of the Isle of Man Fisheries Board 

 have only a limited circulation and are probably unknown 

 to members of the Lancashire and Western Committee^ 

 it may be found convenient to have recorded here the 

 portion of the last report which deals with sea-fisheries 

 work in 1905. It occurs in the " Report from the Hon. 

 Director," as Appendix I. to the First* Annual Report of 

 the Fisheries Board. 



The Report is made to Tynwald Court, and was drawn 

 up in June, 1905, and signed on July 5th. The Report 

 contains the following sentences : — 



" The Board entered into negotiations with the 

 Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries Joint Committee, 

 with a view to obtaining the assistance of the Committee's 

 s.s. " John Fell " in policing the territorial waters of the 

 Isle of Man, and, having made a preliminary arrangement 

 with the Committee, applied for and obtained from the 

 Tynwald Court a grant of £50 for the purpose of 

 carrying out such arrangement. 



" The agreement is now in operation, and Dr. J. 

 Travis Jenkins, Superintendent of Fisheries to the Joint 

 Committee, and Capt. Wignall, of the s.s, " John Fell," 

 have been appointed Fishery Officers under the provisions 

 of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1894." 



The Appendix on the Sea-fish Hatchery and 

 Aquarium at Port Erin runs as follows: — 



* The three previous reports were made by a Committee appointed 

 by Tynwald Court — this Committee and others being now replaced by 

 ihe "Fisheries Board." 



