190 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



5. The provisious of the bill are against sound State policy, unjusi and 

 discriminating, as it would drive tbose engaged in lishiug with steam 

 vessels to take out foreign registers and f)roceed to carry on their busi- 

 ness under the protection of a foreign flag. 



6. The bill is illegal and unjust because it seeks to deprive a certain 

 class of vessels of the right recognized by the Federal Government, 

 which has registered and licensed these vessels to carry on the fishing 

 business in the waters within the scope of its jurisdiction. 



7. The bill in its i)rovisions is arbitrary and against the principle of 

 all human laws, for it actually prohibits in section 2 a steam fishing 

 vessel with its fishing gear to enter any port of the State under pain of 

 confiscation or fine — whether the vessel by stress of weather, accident, 

 springing a leak, or in any distress whatever, should be caught in any 

 of the waters within the jurisdiction of this State, including the waters 

 of the Atlantic Ocean within three nautical miles of the coast-line thereof. 



8. The jurisdiction of any State along the sea-coast cannot extend be- 

 yond low-water mark, in matters relating to commercial or industrial 

 pursuits which the United States have the power to regulate and con- 

 trol or which can be subject-matters of foreign treaties. 



lOl.-REPORT UPON THE RECEIPT AND HATCHINO OF AITIERIC'AIV 

 IVHITEFISn OVA AI\» PT.AIVTIIVG OF THE FRY JIN AUSTRALIA.* 



By AI.FRED GREEIVFIELD, 



Honorary Secretary of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society. 



On the 11th of February, 1884, the steamship Zealandia arrived from 

 America at Auckland with one million whitefish ova. The mail agent, 

 in whose charge they were placed, instead of causing the box to be 

 transhipped with the mails by the southern steamer then in port, which 

 left Auckland immediately on receipt of the mails, telegraphed to me 

 asking that instructions might be sent to the secretary of the Auck- 

 land society "what to do with the ova." 1 immediately sent an urgent 

 telegram requesting that they might be sent by the first steamer, but 

 the message did not reach the secretary until the southern steamer had 

 left. So the eggs were unfortunately detained in Auckland until the 

 14th, when, after receiving a fresh supply of ice, they were placed on 

 board the steamship Takapuna, which arrived at AVellingtou about 

 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th. The oVa box was immediately 

 transhipped into a small steamer, which left that evening and arrived 

 at Nelson at 9 a. m. on the 16th. It was then conveyed to the society's 

 hatching-boxes and unpacked. A considerable quantity of ice was 

 found on the top and sides of the trays. Four trays were taken out and 



* Addressed to Hod. Thomas Dick, Wellington, Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, 

 and by him foi-warded to Professor Baird, under date of March 25, 1884. 



