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son, and Mr. Pike, of Connecticut, E. A. Braekett, Dr. M. C. 

 Edmunds, B. B. Porter, A. A. Anderson, H. J. Reeder, Ru- 

 dolph Hessel, and others. 



Various communications in reference to practical piscicult- 

 ure were presented and discussed during the meeting. 



On the 11th of February a meeting of the State Fish Com- 

 missioners was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, called by 

 Professor Baird, the United States Fish Commissioner, the 

 principal object being the consideration of the most impor- 

 tant subjects connected with the labors of the State Com- 

 missioners. Mr. J. W. Milner, the Assistant Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, read a paper, which was considered, and recom- 

 mended by the meeting for publication. 



OBJECTION TO THE USE OF SUBMERGED NET-WEIRS. 



Special attention is called to the propriety of forbidding 

 the use of submerged net-weirs in the waters of Lake Cham- 

 plain for the capture of whitefish, a custom which, in the 

 opinion of the Commissioners, will inevitably result, in a very 

 few years, in causing the practical destruction of this valu- 

 able article of food. 



FISHERIES AND SEAL - HUNTING IN THE W r HITE SEA AND 



NORTHERN OCEAN. 



Mr. Alexander Schulz, of Russia, has lately communicated 

 to the Geographical Society of Dresden an important paper 

 on the fisheries and seal-hunting in the White Sea and North- 

 ern Ocean, of somewhat the same character as his elaborate 

 paper on the fisheries of the Caspian, published at Vienna, to 

 illustrate a collection of specimens exhibited at the Exposi- 

 tion. In his last paper he remarks that most of the fishing 

 villages are situated on the south and southwest shores of 

 the White Sea, but that along the Murmanian coast, which 

 stretches as far as Norway, there are no regular fishing settle- 

 ments, and only huts and storehouses, unoccupied during the 

 winter. From April to the middle of August, however, about 

 5000 fishermen repair thither from the shores of the White 

 Sea to take part in the cod-fishery, the annual value of which 

 amounts to about two millions of rubles. The most impor- 

 tant fishes of the region are cod, salmon, and herring, which 

 are prepared in various ways for the market. Between July 



