62 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [10] 
1877. 
The field of investigation was resumed at Salem, Mass., and later at 
Halifax, N.S. A larger steamer of 300 tons made deep-sea research 
possible. The Commissioner and his staff served as experts before the 
Halifax Fishery Commission. The propagating work was on the in- 
crease, and the government carp ponds were established in Wash- 
ington. 
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1878—1879. 
In 1878 the summer station was at Gloucester, Mass.; in 1879 at Pro- 
vincetown. These centers of the fishing interests were selected that 
more attention might be devoted to studying the history, statistics, and 
methods of the sea fisheries; a plan for the systematic investigation 
which seemed yearly more necessary in view of the dissensions between 
the Governments of the United States and Great Britain. In 1879 a 
combination was formed with the Superintendent of the Tenth Census, 
by which the Commissioner was enabled to carry more rapidly forward 
this branch of the work. Specialists were dispatched to all parts of 
the country to study the biological, statistical, and practical aspects of 
the fisheries. In 1878 the breeding of cod and haddock was accom- 
plished at Gloucester. In 1879 the propagation of the oyster was accom- 
plished, by co-operation with the Maryland commission, under the diree- 
tion of Major Ferguson, and the distribution of the carp throughout the 
country was begun. 
1880. 
The summer station is at Newport, R. I. The Fish Hawk, a steamer 
of 484 tons, constructed expressly for the work of the Commission, lies 
at the wharf, fow equipped for scientific research, later to be employed 
in the propagation of sea fish such as the cod and the mackerel. Over 
fifty investigators are in the field in the service of the Commission. The 
season was opened by the participation of the commission in the Inter- 
national Exhibition at Berlin. The first-honor prize, the gift of the 
Emperor of Germany, was awarded to Professor Baird, not alone as an 
acknowledgment that the display of the United States was the most 
perfect and most imposing, but as a personal tribute to one who, in the 
words of the President of the Deutscher Fischerei Verein, is regarded 
in Europe as the first fisheulturist in phe world. 
