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T. — Victoria. 

 Shell-fisli, crabs, and stuffed fisb. 



U. — Tasmania. 

 Stuffed fish (salmon and trout), and different kinds of shell-fisli. 



V. — Bermuda. 



Corals, sliell-fish, beautiful live salt-water fish in aquaria. 



X. — Canada 



had exhibited a large quantity of preserved fish and other marine ani- 

 mals, chiefly lobster, mackerel, and salmon (Canadian Meat and Produce 

 Company, Eichibucto), besides salt salmon, trout, and herring (also 

 smoked), dried codfish, x)ollock (Halifax, Xova Scotia), fishing imple- 

 ments, especially for fresh-water fishing, and winches for hauling in long 



lines. 



Y. — The United States 



had, as was to be expected, the largest and most complete collection of 

 all kinds of fish and fishing implements, boats, models of boats and 

 vessels, &c., and everything loertaining to the fisheries and fish trade, 

 all under one and the same roof, in the United States Government's 

 building, in which there were catalogued sj)ecimens of all the products 

 of the United States — grain, fruit, minerals, coal, land and marine ani- 

 mals, industrial products, both ancient and modern, war materials, &c. 

 It would lead us too far to enumerate everything pertaining to fish and 

 fisheries, and in fact does not come within the scope of this pamphlet, 

 while we shall make brief mention of those exhibits which the indi- 

 vidual States had made in their respective " State buildings" or in the 

 main buildings. 



1. — Massachusetts. 



The Commission of Fisheries of this State had exhibited a complete 

 and beautiful collection of boats and vessels, especially mackerel- 

 schooners, fishing-boats, &c. The city of Gloucester, at present the 

 largest and most imi)ortant fishing station in America, had exhibited a 

 comjilete and very instructive collection of everything belonging to 

 bank-fishing, as well as models of ancient and modern boats and vessels 

 floating on a pond specially arranged for this purpose, on which seine- 

 fishing was illustrated by models, and on whose banks there were models 

 of different establishments for receiving and preparing fish. Among the 

 apparatus peculiar to America we must mention the so-called " bait- 

 mills," by which suitable pieces of bait are cut very rapidly from the 

 raw material, salt herring, swordfish, cuttlefish, &c., and likewise the 

 " ice-crashers" and other imj)lements for breaking the ice, used for keep- 

 ing fresh fish, in small pieces. W. K. Lewes «& Brothers and W. Under- 



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