178 American Fisheries Society 



Tuesday Morning Session, October 17. 



REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Henry O'Malley, chairman of the committee, re- 

 ported upon the two recommendations made by the Re- 

 cording Secretary, Prof. Raymond C. Osburn, and moved 

 as follows: 



1. That the offices of Recording Secretary and Editor 

 be separated, that the $50.00 fee to the Recording Secre- 

 tary be discontinued and that instead this officer be al- 

 lowed his expenses at the annual meeting. 



After some discussion by various members this was 

 referred back to the committee for further consideration. 



2. That the Secretary be authorized to sell the back 

 volumes of the Transactions to members only at half 

 price, or at the rate of $1.00 for the 1910 volume and 

 $.75 each for all other volumes. 



This motion was seconded by Mr. Daniel B. Fearing 

 and passed by vote of the Society. 



READING OF PAPERS. 



Remarks on the Tile-fish, by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, U. 

 S. Commissioner of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 



Following the discovery of the tile-fish in 1879, Pro- 

 fessor Baird, then U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, was 

 hoping to induce commercial fishermen to market it, 

 when some violent catastrophe nearly exterminated the 

 species. From 1892 to the present the tile-fish has been 

 increasing in numbers, and in the fall of 1915 the Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries undertook the task of introducing it 

 on the market. It was necessary to hire a regular fish- 

 ing schooner, guaranteeing fifteen hundred dollars for 

 four weeks of fishing, but the sales of tile-fish more than 

 covered the charter price. Since then the fishery has rap- 

 idly progressed and is being followed regularly at Bos- 

 ton, New York, Atlantic City and other ports of the New 

 England and Middle Atlantic States. Apparently the 

 fishery will yield 20,000,000 lbs. in the first year of its 



