Madras Fisheries Department. Bulletin Vol. 14. Madras Fishery Investigations 1921 (Second Series)

Study of plankton is also necessary for the extension of our knowledge of the larval histories of the great majority of our food fishes ; the herring is almost the only exception to the rule that the eggs of food fishes are pelagic, floating freely in the surface waters of. the sea. [...] The budget draft submitted to the Fishery Council is entitled Proposals for the grant of supplies for the arrangements concerning sea-fisheries in the Budget for the year ending 30th June . , submitted by the Director of Fisheries. " Last year the Fishery Codricil devoted a full week to the consideration of the estimates for the year 1921-22, each item being considered and discussed seriatim. [...] The budget for the year in question is the largest ever submitted to the nation ; the proposals were received cordially and the Director, who met the views of the Council to the greatest extent possible, had the satisfaction of getting all his schemes through, the chief modification being that the Council increased the estimate to the extent of Kr. [...] The society makes arrangements for the supply of tins—bodies and covers—to the worker, greatly simplifying the proposition, which is then resolved into instruction in the proper manner of (a) the extraction of the flesh of the crab, after cooking, (b) the attractive packing of this into the body of the tin, (c) soldering on the cover, (d) testing, exhausting, and tipping, and (e) sterilizing. [...] Conversely the advocates of the scheme point to the notable successes of certain of the men who have taken it up ; on the whole I believe the experiment has justified itself, not so much perhaps in regard to the main . object of the original promoters, that of creating an extensively carried on home-industry, as in giving opportunities to enterprising men to learn the principles of canning and to l