of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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Flodevig Institution, and planted on the fishing grounds. At the 
Newfoundland hatchery, also, operations are conducted on a large 
scale, 39,650,000 of young cod and 551,469,880 of young lobsters 
having been hatched and set free on the fishing grounds during the 
course of last season. 
Last year it was decided by the Board that a similar hatchery 
for sea-fish should be erected at Dunbar, where a suitable site and 
sea-creek were available, and which is situated in proximity to the 
large closed area of the Firth of Forth. From this area beam- 
trawling has been excluded since 1886, and for the same period 
careful statistics have been collected as to the fish caught within 
that area, and periodical examinations of the fishing grounds made. 
Hence, no place could be more suitable to study how best to increase 
the supply of the food-fishes by culture, inasmuch as the grounds 
are under control and the present abundance and distribution of 
the fish are known. 
As a preliminary step, Dr Fulton was requested to visit~~the 
Norwegian sea-fish hatchery, which is referred to above, and subse- 
quently the experience and advice of Captain G. M. Dannevig, the 
Director of that establishment, were obtained. At the invitation of 
the Board, Captain Dannevig made an inspection and examination 
of the site of the proposed hatchery, the sea-creeks adjoining, and 
the natural conditions in relation to hatching work, and reported 
favourably. The Board thereupon decided to proceed with the 
formation of a hatchery, so far as the means at their disposal 
would permit ; and that the system of Captain Dannevig, the success 
of which had been proved in the course of years in Norway, should 
be adopted at Dunbar. Plans for a large spawning pond were pre- 
pared by Messrs Strain, Robertson, and Thomson, C.E., and Captain 
Dannevig kindly undertook the supervision of the construction of 
the hatching-house and hatching appliances in Norway. 
The hatching-house, which is now erected at Dunbar, consists of 
a substantial double-walled wooden building, thirty-five feet long 
by twenty-four feet broad, with interior space for sixteen hatching 
boxes, capable of containing at one time 80,000,000 eggs ; and it has 
been placed so that it will be possible, subsequently, to extend it to 
three times the size within the limits of the ground at the disposal 
of the Board. The spawning pond in which the ripe fish are con- 
tained at the spawning time is also completed, and consists of a 
large concrete tank sunk in the ground, with a capacity of 60,750 
gallons. For pumping the large supplies of sea-water necessary, 
an 8-horse power locomotive steel boiler and two Worthington direct- 
acting steam pumps have been obtained ; each pump being capable 
of throwing over two thousand gallons of sea-water per hour when 
working at minimum speed, and over three thousand gallons per 
hour at maximum speed. It is intended to arrange the supply- 
pipes so that the water may be pumped directly from the sea or 
from the creeks which it is proposed to enclose. 
The whole of the above work will be completed during the 
present summer, and operations may therefore be commenced at the 
next spawning season. It may be pointed out that, while the pre- 
sent number of hatching boxes will allow about 80,000,000 of fish- 
£ggs to be manipulated at one time, many times this quantity can 
