REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LXVII 



Lieutenant Babcock ; the shad work at the Havre de Grace Station, by 

 Mr, Hamlen ; the work with oysters at the Saint Jerome Station, by 

 Mr. Eavenel ; and a report on the water supply of the station at Wood's 

 Holl, by Dr. Kidder. 



B. — The Fisheries. 



The fifteen papers in this section are of a somewhat general or statis- 

 tical nature, giving a view of the fisheries of this country and of 

 northern Europe. The first article is a report by Colonel McDonald 

 on the protection which should be afiorded by law to the fisheries of 

 the Atlantic coast. A paper follows on the New England fishery for 

 swordfish during 1884, by Mr. A. Howard Clark. Next comes an 

 article giving the statistics of the United States imports and exports of 

 fish and fishery products, the tonnage of fishing vessels, &c., for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, compiled by Mr. Smiley from informa- 

 tion furnished by the Bureau of Statistics. Captain Collins has an 

 article on the use of gill-nets in the cod fisheries, with a description of 

 the Norwegian cod-nets and a history of their use in the United States, 

 illustratBd by twelve plates ; and another paper giving an account of 

 the trips of three Gloucester schooners to the Iceland halibut tishiug- 

 grounds. The fisheries of Iceland are treated of in four papers, each 

 being a translation from the Danish. The statistics of the Norwegian 

 fisheries in 1880 are given by Boye Strom, after which comes a trans- 

 lation from the Danish on the need of a central management for the 

 Norwegian fisheries. A valuable paper is given by Dr. Rudolph Lund- 

 berg on the fisheries of Sweden, illustrated by a plate showing some of 

 the kinds of apparatus used. This is followed by an article from the 

 Swedish by Prof. A. V. Ljungman on the future of the herring fisheries 

 on the coast of Bohus ; and an other from the Danish by Lieut. Carl 

 Trolle on salting fish in Jutland. The last paper of the section is a 

 translation from the Danish on the salting of herring, giving valuable 

 information and suggestions in regard to this work. 



C— Fish-Culture. 



The first of the five papers in this section is a review of the failures 

 and successes of artificial fish-culture, by Von der Wengen. This is fol- 

 lowed by a long article, by Carl Nicklas, on pond culture, being spe- 

 cially ai^plied to the methods of carj) culture in Germany, illustrated 

 by forty-four figures and provided with a table of contents and special 

 index. Next is an article by Chas. W. Smiley on some results of carp 

 culture in the United States, which consists mostly of statements of 

 persons thus engaged. An article by Dr. Horst, translated from the 

 Danish, on the development of the European oyster, is illustrated by 

 two plttes ; and is followed by a statement, translated from the Dan- 

 ish, on oyster culture as seen at the London Fisheries Exhibition, by S. 

 A. Buch. 



