XXXIV EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 6. — COUETESXES TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Almost from the very begiuuing the United States Fish Commission 

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

 varieties of fish from foreign countries that promised to be useful in 

 North America. 



Among its eftbrts in this direction may be mentioned the improved 

 varieties of German carp, the Rhine salmon, 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-cultu: al 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, whitefish, 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 whitefish and 

 20,000 eggs of the brook trout were forwarded to the Society 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 whitefish 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, [salmonidoi) 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. 



Ohili. — In reply to the application of the Chilian minister in Wash- 

 ington, information was supi>lied in regard to the more important 

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

 sary pamphlets and instructions were furnished for their cultivation, 

 and a promise 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 part 



