of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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(al)out yWt^ inch), the surplus of immature shrimps being used for 
manure. It is in the localities where this wasteful method is most 
practised that complaints of impoverished fishing-grounds are loudest. 
Dr Ehrenbaum recomm(3nds a compulsory mesh of not less than 5 milli- 
metres wide, and the prohibition of the using shrimps as manure. 
The Kiel Commission has published a Keport by Dr Hensen on the 
results of a scientific expedition made in 1887 on board the ' Holsatia ' in 
the eastern part of the Baltic."^ The cruise occupied about ten days, and 
the results, especially in regard to the ' Plankton ' or pelagic life, are 
given with all the fall detail of Dr Hensen's previous publications on 
the subject. Dr Reinke furnishes lists of the algae obtained, and Professor 
Brandt lists of the animals collected in the dredge and trawl. The second 
portion of Dr Reinke's monograph on German marine algae apt)eared 
recently.! Four genera are described, and the descriptions are elucidated 
by ten excellent plates. 
Professor Haekel last year published a work on the study of the 
pelagic fauna,! in which he proposes an elaborate nomenclature for tow- 
net collections, and questions the utility of the recent Plankton work of 
the Kiel Commission. Professor Brandt has replied to Haeckel, § and 
more recently Professor Hensen has published a work dealing with the 
Plankton studies. || 
Under the auspices of the Fishery Department, Herr Berthold Stahl 
made a visit of inspection to the fishery harbours and fish markets in 
Belgium and England. His report on the subject was published last 
year.H The places visited were Brussels, Ostend, Blankenburg, London, 
Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Hull, and Grimsby. Full and detailed descrip- 
tions are given of the various fish-markets and of the arrangements for 
landing and disposing of the fish, the descriptions being illustrated by 
nine plates. 
During 1889 the imports of foreign herrings at the port of Stettin was 
greater than in any previous year.*"^ The number of barrels was 565,596, or 
1 18,782 over the total for 1888, and 36,563 above the great import of 1885. 
The imports of Scotch herrings increased by 46,640 barrels, Norwegian by 
34,029, and Swedish by 39,347. The chief point brought out is tho 
great increase of the imports of Swedish herrings in recent years. The 
totals are as follows: — In 1885, 675 barrels; in 1886, 576 barrels; in 
1887, 1295 barrels; in 1888, 9627 barrels; in 1889, 48,974 barrels. 
VIII. SWEDEN. 
The sea fisheries of Sweden may be divided into two groups : — (1) those 
of Bohuslan, or that part of Sweden which lies between Gothenburg and 
Norway, where the coast population consists mostly of fishermen ; (2) 
* * Die Expedition der Sektioii fiir Kiisten und Hochseefisclierei in der ostliehen 
Ostsee, Untersuchung des Planktons sowie der Tliiere und Pflanzen des Meeres- 
bodens,' Seclister Bcricht, Heft ii., Berlin, 1890. 
t ' Im Auftrage des Koniglich Preussischen Ministeriums fiir Landwirtlischaft, 
Domanen und Forsten, herausgegeben im Iiiteresse der FisclKn-ei von der Kommis- 
sion zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere,' Atlas dmtscher 
Meeresalgen^ Berlin, 1891. 
% Plankton- Studien, Jena, 1890. 
§ 'Haeckel's Ansichten iiber die Plankton-Expedition.' Schriften d. Naturwiss. 
Vereins fiir Schleswig-Holstein, Bd. viii. Heft 2, 1891. 
II ' Die Plankton-Expedition und Haekel's Darwinismus,' Kiel und Leipzig, 1891. 
IT Fischer cihdf en und Fischallen in Belgien und England, Berlin, 1890. 
** ' Stettins Handel, Industrie und Seliiirahrt im Jalire, \^^^,' Jahreshericht der 
Vorsteher der Kauffmannschaft, Stettin, 1890, p. 14. 
