94 transactions liverpool biological society. 

 Work at Piel. 



There is comparatively little that need be said about 

 the work at the Piel laboratory and hatchery. Mr. 



Scott's section of the reporl (see below) wil] show thai he 

 has successfully hatched and turned out into the sea 

 about thirteen and a half millions of young flat fish. 

 He reports to me that the spawning" fish he now has arc 

 in satisfactory condition and that the prospects for the 

 present season are good. 



The fishermen's classes were held at the Piel 

 Laboratory in the usual manner and with the usual 

 success. One of the results of the continued success of 

 these classes, and of our natural desire to hold as many 

 of them as is possible in the season, is that our two 

 scientific assistants, Mr. Johnstone and Mr. Scott, are 

 occupied in this work during that period of the year when 

 the principal food-fishes are spawning, when the eggs 

 are appearing in our surface nets and other 

 changes are taking place in the floating life of the sea. 

 I feel that it is a distinct loss to us that these naturalists 

 are prevented at that important part of the year from 

 taking almost daily observations from the steamer. 

 When we get, as I hope we soon shall, an increase in our 

 investigating staff it will be very important to have one 

 naturalist at least on the steamer constantly, engaged in 

 carrying on investigations and in recording observations 

 daily. 



Mr. Scott contributes a section of this report on the 

 results of the Hensen net hauls undertaken in the' eastern 

 portion of the Irish Sea between Barrow and North 

 Wales. These results are interesting not only for 

 comparison amongst themselves, station with station and 

 period with period throughout the year, but also because 



