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and kept until required at the instance of the Earl of Tankerville. 
An oyster pond in connection with Mr. Brown’s mussel farm, at 
Warham, is used for keeping oysters until required in similar 
manner. I am led to understand that the native oyster is still to 
be got on the Fenliam scaup. And, of course, the shells of this 
natural oyster inhabitant are quite common on the shore near the 
scaup, and may be got at Warham. If it be the case that this native 
oyster is not altogether exterminated, and I believe that it used to 
be taken away by coasting vessels in large quantities, it might with 
a little care be re-established and furnish profitable work for the 
fishermen of that region. The mussel/we have seen grows naturally 
at Fenham in considerable quantity, and in the cultivation of this 
species again much valuable work is apparently available. The 
cockle and the clam (Mya arenaria) are also native to this place, 
and to Warham, and might be cultivated and introduced into the 
markets as a good, if less noble food for human beings. I can imagine 
that if such were established and shown to be capable of successful 
cultivation, that methods of cooking in various different ways would 
become an important investigation in the process of introducing 
them to the public. 
There are several other places which experiment may prove to 
offer the desired facilities for providing mussels for bait. So that, 
if our coast does not present much waste ground which might thus 
be brought into requisition, we can at least make the attempt to 
make the best use of what little there is. I cannot think of more 
suitable experimental work for the Technical Education Committee 
after trying to find out and make known the local condition of the 
sea fisheries, than endeavouring thus to bring under cultivation 
such places as now seem to be of little use to anybody, and the very 
fact that the clam would require to be dug, would make the work 
look still more like the better known cultivation of the land. 
