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SCIENTIFIC FISHERY WORK ON THE 
EAST COAST. 
The report, with minutes of evidence of the Committee “ appointed 
to enquire and report as to the best means by which the State 
or Local Authorities can assist Scientific Research as applied to 
problems affecting the Fisheries of Great Britain and Ireland,” comes 
to our hands just as our report is passing through the press. It is 
important with reference to the work which we have been carrying 
on in this district, and we beg to offer a few remarks upon it. 
The Committee recommend that on the South Coast of England, 
the investigations should be made in connection with the Plymouth 
Laboratory. The report shows that the Plymouth Laboratory was 
constructed at a cost of £12,000, of which amount the Treasury 
contributed £5,000. Government also makes an annual grant of 
£1,000, and the Laboratory receives each year from other sources 
£1,700. The investigations on the West Coast are to be conducted 
by the Lancashire and Western Fisheries Committees. They at 
present have a Laboratory in connection with the College at Liver- 
pool, and, “ with the assent of the Board of Trade,” they expended 
a few years ago the “ sum of £1,000 in the establishment of a lobster 
hatchery and Marine Station at Piel, near Barrow-in-Furness. The 
expenditure of a further annual sum, not exceeding £500, has been 
sanctioned for ten years for the maintenance and working expenses 
of the hatchery and its adjuncts.” In both these cases the new work 
will be undertaken “ with increased financial assistance.” 
On the East Coast, which the report admits is the most im- 
portant of all, the Committee recommend the establishment of a 
laboratory, with a museum, at Grimsby. Three biological assistants 
will be “appointed and placed on a permanent basis” as at the 
other two places. Each of the three stations, moreover, is to be 
provided with a special steamer to carry on the investigations at sea. 
The report takes note of the fact that “ a laboratory and Marine 
Station has been established at Cullercoats, in the Northumberland 
Sea Fisheries District, mainly owing to the assistance given by Mr. 
John Dent, a member of the local committee.” We do not think for 
a moment of bringing into comparison with what has been done on 
