MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE HERRING FISHERY. 
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ItETURN OF IIeUEINGS LANDED AT YaBMOUTH AND LoWESTOFT 
I’lSn-’W'jIAHVES IN 1885. 
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Note. — Sinco the above was written, tliere appears to be a 
prospect of Englaiul sharing the privileges already accorded to 
Ireland and Scotland, by the formation of a Fisheries Board. 
The want of such an establishment has long been severely felt, and 
it must bo a matter of great satisfaction that at last a branch of 
industry of such vast and increasing importance as the Sea 
Fisheries of the Fnglish coast will receive the attention which 
has hitherto been so strangely denied to it. In order to be truly 
effective, however, I venture to think such a Board must not confine 
its labours e.xclusively to the collection of statistics, much as such 
information is required. It has a far more important duty 
to perform. Whilst fully agreeing with the expressed opinion 
tliat the “practical” element (by which I understand fishermen and 
boat-owners to be meant) should be duly represented on the staff 
of such an establishment, it appears to mo that we cannot do 
better than follow the excellent example set us by the United 
Stiites of America, at the head of whose Fishery Commission 
is one of the most distinguished naturalists of the United States. 
It Avould be as unreasonable to require a trained biologist simply to 
Collect statistics as it would be to ask such a man to collect 
tlie corn returns : this duty should be entrusted to special 
