EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 
THE FISH GULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
Turspay, February 26th, 1879. 
THE meeting was called to ofder in the Director’s room of 
the Fulton Market Fish-Mongers’ Association, in the City of 
New York, by the President, Hon. Ronert B. ROosEvE Lt, at 
rr A. M. 
The President made some introductory remarks on the pro- 
gress in fish culture during the past year, mentioned the hatch- 
ing of cod-fish by the United States Fish Commission, calling at- 
tention to the objects of the Association, and the importance of 
carrying them out. So far the New York Commission had devo- 
ted their attention to two or three kinds of fish, but what scope 
there might be in the future no one could tell. 
The President regretted that a confused nomenclature of 
our fishes in the matter of common or popular names. still 
existed. He told of his own difficulties in making a man in 
one portion of the country understand what fish was meant 
when he called it by a name in use in some other part, an 
example of which was given in the Stzostethium, which is 
called a “pike” in some parts of the State of New York, a 
“pickerel” in Canada, and a “salmon” on the Ohio and 
Mississippi rivers; while the “great lake pike” (sox luctus) 
is called a “pickerel” in some localities and a “pike” in 
others. 
