TO THE READER. 



S far as I am aware, no comprehensive work has hitherto 

 been published on the Austro- Hungarian Sea-fisheries. 1 

 Count Antonio Marazzi, Vice-Consul for Trieste, 

 addressed in 1873, to the Italian Ministry of Foreign 

 Affairs, a report on the subject, from the point of 

 view of the Italian fishermen engaged in the East 

 Adriatic fisheries. 2 Valuable information on the same 

 subject was also prepared by Dr. Syrski for the Vienna Exhibition of 

 1873, and published by the Marine Section of the Austrian Ministry 

 of Commerce. 3 The following report, suggested by my learned colleague, 

 Capt. R. F. Burton, Her Majesty's Consul for Trieste, is intended to 

 treat the subject in a more general sense, and to pave the way for a 

 comprehensive work. 



The original plan has been considerably enlarged in the course of 

 execution. 



Inquiries into the nomenclature of fishes, local and popular, and their 

 identification, have necessitated more serious studies of the fauna than was 

 at first contemplated: this has led to a short description of the fauna and 

 its chorology, which does not by any means aspire to scientific merits, and 



1 Dr. Carlo de Marchesetti's work, La Pesca lungo k coste orientali delV Adria, has 

 appeared since these pages were written, and I am indebted to this valuable contribution for a 

 variety of information. 



2 Bollettino Consolare of July, 1873. 



3 Special Catalog der im Pavilion der Oesterr. Handelsmarine mid Maritimen Etablissements 

 ausgestellten Gegenstiinde. 



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