460 ANNUAL KECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



luxury. The charges there indicated for the eggs of broolc 

 trout (Sabno fontmalis), the American salmon-trout (Sal/no 

 trutta), and the whitefish (Coregonus albus), are twenty-five 

 pounds sterling per thousand ; while for the fry of the trout 

 and salmon-trout thirty pounds sterling are charged, and those 

 of the whitefish are at the rate of one hundred pounds per 

 thousand. The eggs of the British trout are two pounds ten 

 shillings per thousand, and the young are three pounds. Even 

 such prices as those last mentioned would be very accepta- 

 ble to American fish-culturists if they could obtain them. 

 10 B, February, 1873, 167. 



STATISTICS OF EGYPTIAN- FISHEKIES. 



According to a report on the statistics of Egypt, we learn 

 that in 1872 the maritime fisheries of six coast districts of 

 that country employed 3761 men in 814 boats. In one dis- 

 trict 15,000 quintals offish were taken. The total value was 

 about 1250,000. The statistics of the fresh-water fisheries are 

 too incomplete to admit of a summation, although the entire 

 value was much less than that just given. Report of Egyp- 

 tian Statistics. 



IMPOKTATION OF CURED FISH INTO ENGLAND IN 1873. 



According to Land and Water, the importation of cured 

 and salted fish into England up to the 8th of ]S'oveiiiber,1873, 

 amounted in value to 479,891, as against 376,636 for the 

 same period in 1872. 2 A, JSFovember 8, 1873, 577. 



GLOUCESTER HALIBUT FISHERY. 



According to the Gloucester Telegrai^h, the recent enter- 

 prise on the part of the indefatigable Gloucester fishermen, 

 having for its object the caj^ture of halibut on the coast of 

 Iceland, has not proved so successful as was hoped for, al- 

 though they are entitled to much credit for their activity in 

 thus seekins: out new fields of labor. It is well known that 

 the halibut fishery on the Georges (the celebrated banks east 

 of Cape Cod) is almost exclusively in the hands of Glouces- 

 ter men, and the dangers of the locality are aptly indicated 

 by its being denominated the "Gloucester Grave-yard," on ac- 

 count of the annual loss of life and property. 



The trade in Newfoundland and Mas^dalen Island herring 



