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5. The meeting at Halifax *23 



Its opening Juno 15, 1S77 23 



General proceedings and history 23 



Final award 26 



Payment of $5,500,000 by tlio United States 26 



6. Kelatioxs of the United States Fish Commission to the Halifax meeting 27 



Invitation to attend by the Secretary of State 27 



Method adopted of obtaining information to be tised 28 



Distribution of circulars 28 



Dispatch of agents 29 



Co-operation of individuals 29 



Departure for Halifax 30 



Part tdken in the meetings 24-30 



Biological and other facts elicited 20-32 



Comi>arative preparation of the two sides 33 



Measures to be taken for securing proper statistics of the sea-fisheries 35 



Aclinowledgmeuts 36 



D.— FISHERY STATISTICS. 



7. Methods adopted and to i;e employed 36 



Action of the Treasury Department 36 



Action of the United States Fish Commission 38 



List of circulars already issued 38 



Mode of distributing ch'culars 39 



One subject only agitated at one time 39 



Eesnlts already elaborated 40 



Blueflsh, scup, whale, and menhaden 



Subjects now under investigation 42 



InfoiTuation of methods of fishing 42 



E.— NOTICE OF ARTICLES RELATIVE TO THE SEA-FISHERIES PUBLISHED 



IN THE APPENDIX. 



8. Attejipt to utilize EXPEiaENCE of other nations. 44 



Fishery statistics of other naiions 44 



I^Iethods of other nations illustrated by apparatus imported 45 



Proposed improved fishery exhibit in AVashiugton 46 



Value of information published in ]Srorv':>y 47 



History of Loffoden Island fislieries 47 



Observations by Sars on Lofibden fisheries 45 



Sea-lisherit s of Xorway 49 



GeogTaphical distribution of Oadidce 49 



First five years of Emdeu herring-fishery 50 



Sea-fisheries of Sweden 50 



9. Okiginal communications 51 



Observations with the Casella-Miller thermometer, by Commander L. A. Beardslee 51 



F.— THE PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES. 



10. General considerations 18 



Unreasonable expectations in regard to results of fish-culture 18 



Time required for determination as to success 18 



Some causes of error or fallacy 18 



State commissions acting in 1871 19 



State commissions in 1877 19 



Amount of worli done by them 19 



Lake States especially noteworthy 19 



Co-operation with United States Fish Commission 19 



Direct 19 



Indirect, as in distribution of salmon, &c 19 



Applications for eggs .and fish 20 



Eapid increase in number 21 



Method of recordiag 21 



