of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 
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best they may be promoted."^ According to reports of the Minister of 
Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, the produce of the sea fisheries 
in 1889 was vahied at 17,264,075 francs; there were 50,000 fisher- 
men and 17,258 boats. The imports of fresh fish were valued in 1887 
at 361,798 francs, and the exports (chiefly to Austria, but also to Greece, 
iNIalta, Egypt, &c.) at 1,078,765 francs.f 
No special scientific fishery work has been carried on since Dr Raffaele's 
well-known researches on the floating eggs and larvse of the food-fishes. 
* Mittheil. DeutscJi. Fischer ei Verein. 
t Op, cit. 
