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exploited and policed — the regulation and administra- 

 tion would be the same as over the adjoining English and 

 Welsh coasts. We should then have in this northern 

 part of the Irish Sea a natural sea-fisheries district ad- 

 ministered by one Authority, having one steamer for 

 police regulation and another for scientific investigation, 

 having central laboratories in the University of Liver- 

 pool, with Marine Stations and Hatcheries at several 

 distant points, probably in the north of Lancashire (Piel), 

 in the Isle of Man (Port Erin), and somewhere on the 

 coast of Wales. The co-relation between such labora- 

 tories and those on the other coasts of England, and again 

 between England, as a whole, and Scotland, Ireland and, 

 it may be, other Countries, might well be as was outlined 

 in the Report of the Ichthyological Committee. If such 

 a national scheme of fisheries co-ordination were carried 

 out it would lead, in addition to increased efficiency of 

 administration, to a marked increase in the scientific 

 knowledge of our fishing grounds, the absence of which 

 successive Select Committees and Conferences have had 

 to deplore. 



W. A. HERDMAN. 

 The University, Liverpool, 

 January, 1904. 



