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trawl fishermen. They are kept fairly hard at work at any rate 
when the fishing is good, and foresight has yet to be engendered in 
this respect. We concluded, however, that the Technical Education 
Committee should be asked to select with the aid of the owners, 
certain of the fishermen, and train them at Cullercoats in the 
methods, hoping that they would carry out the work at sea, and 
influence their fellows to follow their example. It seems only 
right that something like this should be done, and it is to the trawl 
fishermen we must look to do it, for the in-sliore fishermen catch 
very few ripe fish. That is to say, if we admit that the sea fisheries 
are suffering from over-fishing, only good can result by an effort on 
the part of the crew of the vessels principally affected to prevent the 
present awful waste of ripe ova in the way suggested. If it were 
made the habit on board these boats, there seems little reason to 
doubt that the resources of our fishing grounds would be increased 
and perhaps greatly increased. 
The Laboratory, I may be allowed to point out, however, was 
not designed as a school, and although it may be used, certainly, to 
train one or two men in the way proposed, I take the opportunity 
of reminding the committees concerned in its control that the 
usefulness of the Laboratory could be greatly increased by taking 
over all the building at present occupied as the baths. At present 
we suffer rather by not having the water under our control. And 
with a more extended laboratory, a separate tank room, &c., there 
would be ample work for the whole time of a fisherman. The “ spare 
time ” which we are supposed to get is, we find by experience, too 
vague to define satisfactorily to both investigator and fisherman. 
Since the above was written, Mr. W. Garstang, of Plymouth 
Laboratory, has kindly sent me a letter explanatory of the experi- 
mental effort being made in Levon, and copies of an admirable 
pamphlet distributed to fishermen for their guidance in carrying out 
the work of artificial fertilization at sea. 
