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1879. Baikd, Spencer F. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. | — | 

 Part V. I — I Eeport | of | The Commissioner | for | 1877. | — | A. — Inquiry 

 into the decrease of food-fishes. | B. — The propagation of food-tishes in the 

 I waters of the United States. | — | Washington : | Government Printing 

 Office. I 1879. I 8vo. pp. 48, 972. [U. S. F. C, 38.] 

 CONTENTS. 

 I.— Eepokt of the Commissioner. 

 A. — General considerations. 



1. Introductory remarks 



Number of reports heretofore published 



Period of the year covered by each report 



Time covered by the present report 



Gradual and great increase in the labors of the Commission 



Labor involved ; increase of appropriations 



Increased interest and cooperation in the work 



Assistants in charge of divisions . 



Propagation branch 



Inquiries branch 



B. — Inquiries into the history and statistics of food-fishes 



2. Field operations during the summer of 1877 



Co-operation of the government departments 



Of Navy Department in previous years - 



In 1877, by detail of steamer Speedwell 



Officers of the Speedwell 



Scientific corps 



Station at Salem, Mass 



Visitors 



Nature of operations 



Station at Halifax, Nova Scotia 



Movements and final disposition of steamer 



Visitors 



Assistance rendered to Commission 



By private parties 



By the Dominion minister of customs 



By the minister of marine and fisheries 



3. General result of the FiELD-woRkoF 1877 



Continuation of previous researches 



Discovery of the pole-flounder, a new and valuable food-fish 



Its economical value and geographical distribution 



Reasons why previously unknown 



Facts connected with distribution of marine fishes 



Large collections made for the National Museum, and for diatribntion to colleges 



and academies 



Superintendence of work of naming and assorting 



C.—The Halifax Convention. 



4. The Treaty of Washington 



Unsettled fishery questions betw(>en the United States and British North America. 



Three-mile line 



Headlands -~ 



Shelter and supplies 



License system 



Privileges of Treaty of 1818 



Fishery clauses of Washington Treaty 



Explanation of provisions 



Ratification in 1873 



Appointment of Commissioners and counsel 



General preliminaries 



5. The meeting at Halifax 



Its opening June 15, 1877 . 



General proceedings .and history 



