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ton’s remarks, and consider that with the great demand for blue-cod 
in New Zealand and Australia, and the prodigious supply to be won 
around the Chathams and neighbouring islets, a very profitable 
industry could be maintained. Further, it might be hoped that the 
establishment of such an industry would materially reduce the price 
of fish, which in New Zealand is an expensive !uxury, and not, as it 
should be in our island community, a cheap and common article of 
wholesome food. 
One of the appendices to the report tabulates the number of each 
kind of marketable fish taken in the trawl. In point of quantity the 
following are the most important: Of schnapper (Pagrosomus auratus), 
taken only off the North Island, 8,540 were obtained, the vast majority 
being secured in the Bay of Plenty. One haul (Station 96) yielded 
1,178, another (Station. 106) 1,200, and at three hauls (Stations 102— 
104) 2,250 were netted. These five hauls also produced the largest 
relative quantity of terakihi (Cheilodactylus macropterus), the figures 
respectively being 720, 1,000, and 1,650. Though taken most nume- 
rously in the Bay of Plenty, this species was very generally obtained 
during the whole cruise, and is without doubt the most ubiquitous 
food-fish on the New Zealand coast: the total number of examples 
prepared for market being 8,273. Red-cod (Physiculus bachus) were 
more uniformly taken at the southern trials, the largest nettings 
being 750 (Station 10), 484 (Station 11), 204 (Station 20), 217 (Sta- 
tion 21), 270 (Station 27), and 300 (Station 39), all southward of 
Canterbury Bight. Thence catches were meagre until hauls were 
made south of Hawke’s Bay, when 200 examples were taken at each 
of two hauls (Stations 77 and 81). They were, however, the only 
important takes off the North Island. The total number secured 
during the cruise was 3,535. 
Though not counted as an edible species, it will be of interest to 
mention that the elephant-fish (Callorhynchus callorynchus) formed no 
inconsiderable portion of a few of the hauls. At Station 45, off 
Lyttelton, the trawl was estimated to contain + ton weight. At an- 
other haul (Station 51), in the same vicinity, 200 examples were 
secured, and 150 and 306 were successively taken off Otago Heads 
(Stations 14 and 15). These were, however, the only occasions on 
which the numbers taken were considered detrimental. 
The appendix giving “ A List of the Various Species of Fish taken 
in the Trawl-net, and the Stations where they were obtained,” calls 
for some notice, and I much regret that this was not submitted to me 
before publication. Both common and scientific names are furnished, 
but it would have been well had the latter been omitted, for the 
gravity attending their use has not been understood, and several 
serious errors exist. Passmg by many misspellings, which are, how- 
ever, evident, and will serve only to cast doubt on the correctness of 
the application of the names as a whole, one or two cases of serious 
import may be cited. 
