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with the Carvalle, taken in the Chesapeake Bay ; that they 

 sold as low as ten or fifteen cents per pound, when ordinarily 

 they command in the Ncav York market from seventy-five 

 cents to one dollar. 



This delicious fish is seldom brought to the Baltimore 

 market, and is little known here. Large catches are often 

 made by fishermen from other States who enter the Bay, fill 

 their vessels, well provided with ice, with the valuable fish 

 of our waters, and take them to New York or Philadelphia. 

 Could this fish become better known by the consumers, and 

 their advent calculated with some certainty by the fishermen, 

 it may j'et occupy as important a place as the other luxuries 

 with which our regions are blessed. 



By reference to the addition of the list of fishes appended, 

 which was prepared from specimens collected during the last 

 year by Mr. Otto Lugger, the energetic and capable custo- 

 dian of the Museum of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 

 it will be seen that twenty-nine species have been added to 

 the list as published last year. Of these, three, namely, the 

 Painted Puffer, (CheiUchthys iestudineus,) Trisoiropis, and 

 the Nurse Shark (Gingli/mosioma cirratum,) have not been 

 found before in North American waters. These twenty-nine 

 additional species, together with the one hundred and sixty- 

 one enumerated in the report of last year, make one hun- 

 dred and ninety species known to Maryland waters, rep- 

 resenting many of the familes most important as food fishes. 



We are indebted to Professor Theodore Grill and other 

 members of the corps of the Smithsonian Institute, for aid 

 in the identification and description of the fishes enumer- 

 ated. We beg leave to tender our acknoAvledgments and 

 thanks. 



CONCLUSION. 



As the General Assembly does not convene until the year 

 from this date, we 'do not deem it necessary to make any 

 recommendations as to the proper legislation to secure the 

 benefit likely to accrue from the efibrts we have made, and 

 are making, to re-stock our waters. We limit this report 

 rather to a simple statement of the work accomplished, and 

 a detail of the plans for the future. 



Investigations of another year sustain the belief, that the 

 decrease of our fishes is attributable to the causes enumer- 

 ated in our last rej)ort, and that the remedies are to be found 

 in the suggestions therein contained. 



