XLI -THE STATUS OF THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION IN 1884. 



By G. Brown Goode, 

 Assistant Director of the U. S. National Museum. 



Page. 



1. Introductory note 1 



2.' The establishujent of the United States Fish Commission 2 



3. The scope of its work 3 



4. Methods and results of the coast investigation 5 



5. Besults of inquiry into causes of tishery deterioration 7 



6. Methods to be adopted for the improTement of the tisheries 10 



7. The scope and province of artificial propagation 14 



8. The methods of artificial propagation 16 



9. What the Commission has done in artificial propagation 19 



10. Public versus private fish-culture 21 



11. The aims and limitations of modern fish-culture 24 



12. Public or modern fish-culture typified in the work of the United States 



Fish Commission 24 



13. European opinions of American fish-culture 26 



Great Britain 26 



Xorway 30 



The Netherlands 30 



Germany 32 



Belgium 33 



France 33 



Spain 33 



Italy 33 



14. The causes of the success of the United States Fish Commission 34 



Its scientific foundation 34 



Its freedom from departmental routine. 34 



Its system of co-ojieration with other Departments of Government, &c. 38 



15. Conclusion 41 



1. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



Ill an essay entitled '' Epochs in the History of Fish Culture," pub 

 lished in the Transactions of the American Fish Cultural Association 

 for 18S1 (tenth meeting, pp. 34-59), in a paper on '' The First Decade of 

 the United States Fish Commission," read before the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science in ISSO (proceedings Boston meet- 

 ing, pp. 563-574), in the article ''Pisciculture," in the forthcoming 

 Volume XIX of the " Encyclopsedia Britannica," in a paper not yet 



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