CONTENTS. 



PART 1. Page. 



Organization and sessional business i 



International regulations op the fisheries on the high seas. By O. T. Olsen. With 



discussion 77 



International regulations of the fisheries on the high seas. By Charles Edward Fryer. 91 

 International regulations of the fisheries on the high sE.'is. By Charles Hugh .Stevenson. 



With discussion 103 



Work of the International Fisheries Commission of Great Britain and the United 



States. By David Starr Jordan 181 



Some reasons for failure of fish protective legislation and some suggested remedies. 



By Oregon Milton Dennis 187 



National aspects of angling and the protection of game fishes. By H. Wheeler Perce. 193 



Sport fishing in California and Florida. By Charles F. Holder 199 



Lobsters and the lobster problem in Massachusetts. By George W. Field. With dis- 

 cussion 209 



A method of lobster culture. By A. D. Mead 219 



Sea mussels and dogfish as food. By Irving A. Field. With discussion 241 



The wholesomeness of oysters as food. By Henry C. Rowe 259 



Effects of menhaden fishing upon the supply of menhaden and of the fishes that prev 



UPON THEM. By Walter E. Hathaway. With discussion 269 



Effects of the .menhaden and mackerel fisheries upon the fish supply. By W. C. 



Kendall 279 



An improved and practical method of packing fish for transportation. By A. Soiling. 295 

 A process for preserving the pearl-oyster fisheries and for increasing the value of 



the yield of pearls. By John I. Solomon 303 



Fur seals and the seal fisheries. By Charles H. Townsend 315 



Economic conditions of the fisheries in Italy. By Guido Rossati 323 



The fisheries and the guano industry of Peru. By Robert E. Coker 333 



The fisheries of China. By Wei-Ching W. Yen 367 



The fisheries of Japan considered from a geographical standpoint. ByT. Kitahara. . . 375 



Goldfish and their culture in Japan. By Shinnosuke Matsubara 381 



Commercial sponges and the sponge fisheries. By H. F. Moore 399 



The abuse of the scaphander in the sponge fisheries. By Ch. Fldgel 513 



A PRACTICAL METHOD OF SPONGE CULTURE. By H. F. Moore 545 



Sponge culture. By Jules Cotte 587 



Experiments in the artificial propagation of fresh-water mussels. By George Lefevre 



and W. C. Curtis 615 



A PLAN FOR PROMOTING THE WHITEFISH PRODUCTION OF THE GREAT LAKES. By S. W. Downing. 627 



A PLAN FOR PROMOTING THE WHITEFISH PRODUCTION OF THE GREAT L.-^KEs. By Frank N. Clark . 635 



A PLAN FOR PROMOTING THE WHITEFISH PRODUCTION OF THE GREAT LAKES. By Paul Reighard . 643 



Discussion of whitefish question 685 



PART 2. 



Fish-cultural practices in the Bureau of Fisheries. By John W. Titcomb 697 



A NEW principle of aquiculture and transport.^tion OF LIVE fishes. By A. D. Mead. 759 



A method of cultivating rainbow trout and other Salmonid.e. By Charles L. Paige. . . . 781 



Possible E.xpansion of shad-hatchery work. By S. G. W'orth 789 



The comparative value of foods for rainbow trout and other Salmonoids. By Charles 



L. Paige 795 



Apparatus and methods employed at the marine fish hatchery at Flodevig, Norway. 



By G. M. Dannevig 799 



The utility of sea-fish hatching. By G. M. Dannevig 811 



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