_ ON THE AID GIVEN TO FISHERIES, ETC., IN NORTH AMERICA, 479 
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Report of the Committee, consistiny of Sir Lyon PLayratr, Professor 
_ Mosetey, Admiral Sir E. Ommanney, Mr. P. L. Scuater, and Mr. 
_ A, SEDGWICK (Secretary), appointed to prepare a Report on the 
Aid given by the Dominion Government and the Government of 
the United States to the encouragement of Fisheries, and to the 
_ wtnvestigation of the various forms of Marine Life on the coasts 
and rivers of North America. 
Ty Canada there is a Department of Fisheries, presided over by the Minister 
‘of Marine and Fisheries, to whom a Deputy Minister of Fisheries makes 
an annual report. 
_ ‘The duties of the Department of Fisheries consist principally in the 
administration of all laws relating to the subject of the sea, coast, or 
inland fisheries ; the management, regulation, and protection thereof ; and 
all matters and things rélating thereto, or assigned by the Governor in 
_ Council to the said department.’ ! 
___ The total expenditure of this department for the year ending June 
884 was $116,531, distributed as follows:—General service, $69,011 ; 
‘fish breeding, $27,585; maintenance of fisheries, protection steamer La 
Canadienne, $19,935. 
__ There are twelve fish-hatcheries in the Dominion, on which the expen- 
diture by the department was in 1884, as stated above, $27,585. Over 
8 million fry—chiefly of salmon, trout and white-fish—were turned out 
from these establishments in 1884. 
_ The United States Fish Commission was instituted in 1871. Its 
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80 to what cause the same is due; also, whether any and what protection, 
prohibitive or precautionary measures in the premises, and to report on 
the same to Congress.’ 
_ To enable it to attain these objects, an appropriation was made to the 
Commissioner. 
_ Inevery year since 1871 appropriations have been made by Congress 
to the Fish Commissioner, to enable him to carry out his recommenda- 
fions; and the sums voted have increased year by year, until, in 1884, 
the sum of $245,380 was appropriated. 
__ The following table shows the annual appropriations to the Fish 
mmissioner since 1871 :—1871-72, $9,000; 1872-73, $30,000; 1873- 
$38,500 ; 1874-75, $23,500; 1875-76, $71,000; 1876-77, $36,045 ; 
1877-8, $75,700; 1878-79, $71,000; 1879-1880, $157,000 (includes 
$27,500 for steamer Fish-Hawk) ; 1880-81, $121,500 ; 1881-82, $328,710 
» (includes $12,709 for Fish-Hawk and $145,000 for Albatross) ; 
82-83, $233,319 60c. (includes $45,000 for Albatross); 1883-84. 
$242,500 (includes $10,000 for Albatross); 1884-85, $245,380. Total 
‘Since 1871, $1,683,155 5c. 
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___ | Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries of the Dominion of Canada for 
the year 1884, 
