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No one will gainsay Mr. H. G. Maurice's fundamental premise (NATURE, November 25, p. 419) that scientific fisheries investigation is primarily a matter for the State—if the authorities have a due sense of their responsibility in selecting for the task scientific men whose training and ability specially fit them for the complex work. It has long been advised that the three centres of the kingdom should have an adequate scientific fisheries staff, at the head of which a trained scientific expert of wide views should be placed.
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MCINTOSH, W. Science and Fisheries. Nature 106, 565–566 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106565c0
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