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NATURALISTS interested in the marine and freshwater fisheries will regret to hear of the sudden death of SIR CHARLES E. FRYER at the age of seventy. Sir Charles Fryer was born in 1850, and entered the Civil Service, at the age of twenty, as Clerk to the Inspectors of Fisheries. In 1870 he became associated with Frank Buckland and Sir Spencer Walpole, and acted as secretary during the well-known inquiry into the natural history of the marine fisheries held during that and succeeding years. He had a unique knowledge of the history of the fishing industry and of the many inquiries that have been held with regard to its administration, and, though in no sense a man of science, he was keenly interested in all fishery biological questions—particularly with regard to the river fisheries. Sir Charles was due to retire at the beginning of the war, but continued to act at the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries during 1915 and 1916. Many fishery naturalists will regret his death.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 446 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106446a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106446a0