168 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES 



The paper represents the personal observations of the writer during 

 parts of four years, and is chiefly based on a study of the pound-net 

 fisheries. Pound nets of this section are more prominent than any 

 other nets, and are the principal objects of the opposition to net fishing 

 which exists on this coast. The article consists of a general review of 

 the history and extent of the pound-net fishery, and of notes on the 

 abundance, movements, and commercial value of the principal food-fishes 

 of the region. About 50 species are separately mentioned, and for all 

 the most important ones detailed figures are given showing the monthly 

 catch in 1891 and 1892 at a pound-net fishery in Monmouth County. 



Notes on the capture of Atlantic salmon at sea and in the coast waters of the 

 Eastern States. (Bulletin, 1894, pp. 95-99, pis. 3 and 4.) 



Some instances of the occurrence of Atlantic salmon off the coasts 

 of Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Delaware are given in this 

 paper. The taking of salmon at places remote from the rnouths of 

 rivers and off States having no salmon streams is of considerable inter- 

 est to naturalists and fish-culturists, in view of the information afforded 

 as to the oceanic migrations of this fish and owing to the efforts being 

 made to introduce it into new waters. Reference is elsewhere made 

 to this paper and to a special inquiry of which it served as a basis. 



MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, NOTES ON FISHERIES, ETC. 

 FISHERIES EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 



Opportunity was afforded the writer to inspect the exhibits of 

 foreign countries in the fisheries section of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition. A special study of the apparatus there displayed was 

 made. Some of the notes and sketches taken were incorporated in the 

 paper elsewhere referred to on the fyke nets and fyke-net fisheries of 

 the United States and other countries. The foreign fishery exhibits 

 which were especially noteworthy for their completeness or for special 

 features were those of Canada, Is'orway, Kussia, New South Wales, and 

 Japan. These contained many objects offering valuable suggestions to 

 the fishery interests of the United States as to apparatus, methods, 

 preparation, and utilization of products, etc. The descriptive cata- 

 logues and reports issued by the Governments of Japan and New South 

 Wales relating to the fishery exhibits and to the fisheries and fishery 

 resources of those countries deserve mention. 



Among the States whose official exhibits were worthy of special note 

 were North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, and 

 Washington. Some of the foremost fishing States were, unfortunately, 

 either entirely unrepresented in the fisheries building or were repre- 

 sented only by a few individual dealers or manufacturers. 



THE WORLD'S FISHERY CONGRESS. 



This congress, one of a series of international gatherings under the 

 auspices of the World's Columbian Exposition, convened at Chicago 

 October 16-19, 1893. As chairman of the section devoted to the con- 



