242, FISHERY PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
over a million dollars for the whale and porpoise fisheries, and nearly 
two millions for the seal, walrus, and sea-otter fisheries, as well as 
$167,000 for reptilian fisheries, while the English returns include no 
air-breathing animals. Thus it is evident that if we compare the 
yield of fish, molluscs, and crustacea only in the two countries the 
fisheries of the United Kingdom are nearly equal in value to those of 
the United States. Comparing the number of the population em- 
ployed in the fisheries in the two countries, we find the total in the 
United Kingdom in 1888 to be 122,526, and that in the United 
States 137,446; but the latter includes 28,867 shoresmen and factory 
hands, which ought to be deducted, leaving 108,579. A comparison 
of the vessels and boats employed in the industry in the two countries 
seems not to be possible without further explanation of the methods 
in which the computations are made. According to the United 
States return, there were in that country in 1888, 6099 fishing vessels, 
of a net tonnage of 170,126, and in addition 47,195 boats. The 
number of boats alone, apart from the vessels, is therefore greatly in 
excess of the total number of fishing vessels and boats of all classes 
registered under the Act of 1868 in the United Kingdom, namely, 
27,812. 
We may next pursue our inquiries concerning the results of the 
operations of the Commission, and ascertain whether evidence as 
complete as in the case of the shad is supplied with regard to other 
species, and whether it supports conclusions of the same favorable 
nature concerning the influence of artificial propagation. At the 
end of Dr. Smith’s report on statistics in the volume for 1889 to 
1891 it is stated that the fishermen of the southern New England 
coast have been much surprised, as well as pecuniarily benefited, by 
the appearance of young cod in great abundance on grounds where 
the fish have been scarce or absent for years. The fishery began in 
1889, when a few small vessels made good fares, one schooner 
landing 300,000 lbs. of the fish. Inquiries conducted by the Commis- 
sion showed that in 1890 by the last of July about 4,000,000 Ibs. of 
small and medium-sized cod were taken in the inshore waters of 
southern New England, which even the most sceptical fishermen 
were willing to acknowledge were fish that had been artificially pro- 
pagated at the Government hatcheries at Wood’s Holl and Gloucester. 
As a result of this single fishery over $100,000 was added to the 
income of the fishermen, and there was reason to believe that a 
permanent summer fishery had been inaugurated that promised good 
returns, 
It would, of course, be desirable to have the complete statistics of 
the New England cod fishery in order to critically examine this 
statement about the increased abundance of cod. Acknowledgments 
