458 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Another act provides that it shall be unlawful for any one 

 to shoot fish, or to use any kind of net or pound, in any wa- 

 ters of the state above the common level at hisrh or back 

 water of Lake Erie and of the Ohio River, or in the water 

 of any lake, pond, or reservoir having a surface of not less 

 than ten acres nor more than eighteen thousand, lying whol- 

 ly within the state, whether the same be a natural or arti- 

 ficial body of water. Two thousand dollars are appropriated 

 for building shutes over the state dam. 



An enactment for the protection of fur-bearing animals pro- 

 vides that it shall be lawful to trap musk-rats, minks, and 

 otter only between the loth of February and the 15th of 

 April following ; and that poison shall under no circum- 

 stances be used outside of any building for the destruction 

 of fur-bearing animals or of vermin. The entrance upon the 

 premises of any one without his consent, for the purpose of 

 trapping, hunting, killing, or pursuing the fur-bearing animals, 

 is also prohibited, the fines for any offense against the enact- 

 ment being not less than two nor more than twenty-five dol- 

 lars. The capture for possession, for sale or otherwise, of 

 deer is also prohibited at any other time than during the 

 months of November and December. List of Ohio Laws. 



PACIFIC COD-FISHEEIES OF 1873. 



The cod-fisheries of the Pacific have been quite successful 

 during the past season, all the fish taken being sure of a fair 

 market. The prices in San Francisco are about one cent 

 per pound less than for the Eastern cod. The total arrivals 

 at San Francisco, up to the end of October, from the Alaskan 

 and Siberian fisheries, amounted to 583,000 fish, of which 

 235,000 were from the Shumagin Islands, and 348,000 from 

 those of the Sea of Okhotsk. The largest cargo brought in 

 was that by the Gold Hunter^ of 121,000. 



GERMAN REPORT ON UNITED STATES FISHERIES AND FISH- 

 CULTURE. 



Drs. Finsch and Lindeman, who visited the United States 

 during the summer and autumn of 1872 as a commission to 

 investiofate the condition of the fisheries and fish-culture in 

 America, have lately presented their report to the Minister 

 of Agriculture of Germany, and it has recently been pub- 



