BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 451 



TiSHERY REGULATION IN Manchooria. — Tlic followiug notification 

 to fishermen was issued in ' 8S5 hy the Eussiau Government. Dr. D. 

 J. Macgowan forwarded a copy, which he had ob'tained from the Eus- 

 sian consul-general at Shanghai, China, as follows: 



''Fisheries in Manchooria. — Every vessel going to fish in the waters 

 of Eussian Manchooria must go into the nearest harbor from the place 

 where she has decided to fish, and obtain a permit from the official in 

 charge of the harbor or port, and after she has filled up with fish she 

 must return to the same harbor and declare the quantity of fish she has 

 taken on board, and pay duty thereon at the rate of about 10 raex cents 

 per picul,* to wit, 5 kopecks per pood, paper money (2 kopects = l mex 

 cent ; 30 pounds=l pood). The same regulation is for seaweed, ex- 

 cept that the duty is 5 kopecks per pood in gold. The regulation is 

 intended for this year only." 



Dr. Macgowau adds that the northwestern coasts of the Pacific abound 

 with fishes, both inshore and deep-sea. beyond any other waters of the 

 globe, and these fisheries are destined to enrich Eastern Siberia, to in- 

 crease the food supply of nations, and to afford employment to the more 

 enterprising of our Cape Cod countrymen, as their skill and daring are 

 needed for developing the Manchoorian fisheries, and who, when unoc- 

 cupied afloat, as they would be in winter, could act as hunters and lum- 

 bermen. 



Preparation of shrimps in China — Dr. D. J. Macgowan wrote 

 from the United States consulate at Wenchow, China, August 20, 1885, 

 that common shrimps, when captured, are boiled with a little salt and 

 then sun-dried. The larger species (with shells fragile and crispy) are 

 boiled with a dash of salt, sun-dried, beaten in stone mortars with 

 wooden jiestles, the mass being then i^laced in a winnowing machine 

 (an ancient Chinese article, identical with patented ones in the West), 

 when the chitinous integument is scattered out like chaff. It is a tooth- 

 some article, and fetches 40 cents per catty retail [30 cents a pound]. 

 The best preparation of shrimps is a paste prepared by grinding be- 

 tween stones. 



Carp wanted in Tasmania.— Writing on August 19, 1885, Messrs. 

 August Johnson and A. Marchant, of Circular Ponds, Mole Creek, Tas- 

 mauia, said : 



We have on our farms lagoons of about 3 acres, creeks and nat- 

 ural pouds, with a very mild climate, and if by your aid we could stock 

 them with German carp you would have the hearty thanks of the whole 

 colony, who would be benefited by it. 



WiU it be possible to forward to this country, from your breeding 

 ponds, either the ova or live breeding fish of the German carp ? It 

 takes the San Francisco steamers about twenty-six days to Sydney, 

 and from there we are about three days distant. 



* One picul=lo3J pouuds, and 5 knpecks=al)Out 3 cents. 



