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Part III. — Eighth Annual Report 
Government erected a large hatchery at Dildo Island, Trinity Bay, 
for the hatching of sea-fish and lobsters ; and it is proposed to form 
similar establishments at other parts of the Newfoundland Coast. 
The Board, with a like object in view, and after due inquiry, 
selected Dunbar as on the whole the best adapted and most con- 
venient place on the Scottish Coast for such an institution. The 
water is of great purity, and there exist natural creeks which could 
readily be transformed into rearing ponds. Through the inter- 
mediation of Colonel E. Malcolm, C.B., the War Office courteously 
granted a suitable site on their ground at the Castle Park. 
Provost Brand, the magistrates, and council of the burgh have 
also given every facility for the purpose in view, and have 
ceded to the Board the use of the natural creeks and the ground 
required. The aim of the Board is supported by the hearty 
sympathy of the fishermen, who quite understand its importance. 
It was not found possible, however, from the want of the necessary 
money, to proceed last year with the enclosure of the creeks and 
the formation of the rearing ponds and buildings. But a small 
Marine Laboratory has now been acquired at Dunbar, in proximity 
to the creeks proposed to be utilised ; and the Board hope that a 
special sum will soon be granted by the Government to enable them 
to complete the works necessary for the hatching and rearing of 
lobsters, and of turbot, soles, and other flatfishes. The Board are 
making arrangements for the establishment of a lobster enclosure at 
Brodick, Arran, as supplementary to a hatchery, which will enable 
them to obtain an abundant supply of ova for replenishing the 
exhausted grounds on the East Coast, while at the same time allow- 
ing of the restocking of grounds on the West Coast. 
The Board's Marine Laboratory at St Andrews continues under 
the able direction of Professor M'Intosh, F.E.S., who devotes his 
services gratuitously to the fishery investigations. Under the 
auspices of the Board Professor M'Intosh and Mr Prince have 
recently completed the most extensive research yet made on the 
development of the food- fishes, and the habits of the young. 
The following is an account of the chief Scientific Investigations 
undertaken during last year. 
1. The Influence of Beam Tkawling. 
The Trawling Experiments of the ' Garland.' 
The Special Keport dealing with this subject will be found at 
page 22. During 1889, the ' Garland ' conducted the trawling 
experiments in the Firth of Forth, St Andrews Bay, and at the 
Stations at Montrose, Aberdeen Bay, in the Moray Firth, and at the 
Orkney Islands. In 1889, 153 hauls of the trawl were made, as 
compared with 90 in 1888. In addition, a large number of special 
observations were carried on along specially selected lines in 
inshore and offshore waters, and at important fishing grounds lying 
off the mouth of the Firth of Forth and in the Moray Firth. 
The ' Garland ' is not large enough to venture far from shore, 
especially during the unsettled weather at the end of winter and in 
spring, when from the presence of spawning shoals off the coast 
