XXXIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 G. — COURTESIES TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Almost from the very beginning the United States Fish Commission 

 Las endeavored to increase the scope of its work by securing any of the 

 varieties of tisli from foreign countries that promised to be useful iu 

 Nortii America. 



Among its eflbrts in this direction may bo mentioned the improved 

 varieties of German carp, the Rhine salmou, the European whitetish 

 and trout, the tench, the ide, the turbot, the sole, and other species. 

 Most of these have been supplied without any charge whatever by for- 

 eign governments or fish-cultural institutions, and the United States 

 Fish Commission, desirous of doing its part in the exchange of prod- 

 ucts, has taken great satisfaction in meeting applications from its cor- 

 respondents abroad for similar contributions. 



In previous reports will be found detailed statements of what has 

 been done in past years in the way of transmitting shad, land-locked 

 salmon, whitetish, California trout, lake trout, black bass, etc., and this 

 international courtesy has been continued during the year 1882 as fol- 

 lows: 



France. — On the 14th of January 250,000 eggs of the whitetish and 

 20,000 eggs of the brook trout were forwarded to the Soci(5t6 d' Accli- 

 matation in Paris, and their arrival in good condition was acknowl- 

 edged on February 17. On the 4th of March a successful shipment of 

 10,000 eggs of the land-locked salmon was made to the same country. 



Germany. — A large number of eggs of land-locked salmon, lake trout, 

 California trout, and whitetish were forwarded via Bremen to the 

 Deutsche Fischerei-Verein, arriving in good condition. Subsequently 

 10,000 eggs of land-locked salmon were sent to Mr. Ebrecht. On the 

 29th of April 2,000 eggs of the California trout, {salmonidw) were for- 

 warded to the Deutsche Fischerei-Verein. 



Great Britain. — At the request of Mr. George Sheppard Page, thir- 

 ty-three black bass were sent to the Duke of Sutherland on the 31st 

 of May, of which thirty-one arrived safely. These were placed on 

 April 20 in Loch Brora, a lake six miles long and well suited to the 

 growth of fish. 



Chili. — In reply to the ajiplication of the Chilian minister in Wash- 

 ington, information was supplied in regard to the more important 

 food-fishes of the United States, and especially the carp. The neces- 

 sary pam[)hlets and instructions were furnished for their (mltivation, 

 and a i)romise was made of as many young fish at the proper time as 

 could be conveniently transported. 



7. — FISHERY EXHIBITIONS. 



It has been my duty to report participation by the United States Fish 

 Commission in two fishery exhibitions — one in Philadelphia, and the 

 other in Berlin. Numerous invitations have been extended to take i)art 



