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MISCELLANEOUS. 



Canadlw Fish. 



The collection of fish from the waters of thi.-; Province for 

 entry at the Tnternation;il Exhibition ;it London, next year, is 

 at present under the hands of the t:ixidormist, and will be ready 

 for shipment in a few weeks. Some expense has been gone to in 

 preparing the collection of these specimens, but it is hoped that 

 the exhibit will, besides attractinir attention to the commercial 

 value of our fisheries, be the means of jittractiriij: t() the Gulf and 

 our Atlantic seaboard, the large and influential body of sports- 

 men who now go to Norway or up the Baltic from Great Britain 

 and the Continent, and thus not only cau>e considerable sums of 

 money to be spent among our people, but make Canada known 

 to a rich class, bavins: a considerable influence over emiirration 

 from the other side. Mr. J. A. N. Gregory, Agent of the De- 

 partment of Marine and Fisheries at Quebec, has charge of the 

 exhibit, which will include the following: — White porpoises, 

 2,000 lbs. weight, 15 feet in length; pufling pig or hog fi<h, 3 

 feet 6 inches in length; dog or ground .shark, 600 lbs. weight. 13 

 feet ill length ; thresher shark, 13 feet in length ; mackerel 

 shark, 8 feet 6 inches in length; small shark (lamna), 3 feet in 

 length; harp seal; harbor seal; square flipper seal; young 

 Greenland seal ; eel-shaped blenny, 12 lb. weight, 2 feet 6 inches 

 in length ; wolf fish or cat, 40 lbs. weight ; tunny or horse mac- 

 kerel, 8 feet 9 inches in length ; smooth skate, 5 feet in length ; 

 skate, 2 feet 6 inches in length ; halibut, 224 lbs. weight, 6 feet 

 7 inches in length ; halibut, 200 lbs. weight, 6 feet 4 inches in 

 lenuth; lump fish, 15 inches in length; codfish, 00 lbs, weight, 

 5 feet 2 inches ; haddock, 13 lbs. weight, 3 feet in length ; 

 sheep's head, 2 feet 6 inches in length ; star fish, 5 to 12 points; 

 sea spider, common crab, hermit crabs, shells, sponges, shrimps, 

 sculpins, white fi>h, 3 lbs. weight, 18 inches in length; white 

 dace, 1^ lbs. weight, 15 inches in length: perch, 10 inches in 

 length ; sunfish ; black sea bass, 13 inches in length ; common 

 bass, 9 inches in length; black bass, IG inches in length : smelt, 

 12 inches in length ; bull frog, sardines, tommy cod, eelpout, mud 

 fisli (beaver fish), 7 lbs. weight, 2 feet in length ; sea cucumber; 

 sea bass (striped), 20 lbs. weight, 2 feet 10 inches in length ; 

 lobsters, 10 lbs.; eels, 8 lbs. weight, 4 feet C inches in length ; 



