The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . eir attention drawn to theplan practised by Italians, viz., to rear fry of marine fishes, such as Redand Grey Mullets, Flat-fishes, Eels, &c, in enclosed waters to a marketablesize; a practice yielding direct and immediate profits, and advocated bymyself for the last twenty years. To the great number of persons whoannually leave these shores for the Mediterranean in quest of sport and viii FISHERIES OF THE ADRIATIC. recreat
The fisheries of the Adriatic and the fish thereof : a report of the Austro-Hungarian sea-fisheries : with a detailed description of the marine fauna of the Adriatic Gulf . eir attention drawn to theplan practised by Italians, viz., to rear fry of marine fishes, such as Redand Grey Mullets, Flat-fishes, Eels, &c, in enclosed waters to a marketablesize; a practice yielding direct and immediate profits, and advocated bymyself for the last twenty years. To the great number of persons whoannually leave these shores for the Mediterranean in quest of sport and viii FISHERIES OF THE ADRIATIC. recreation, the present work may serve as guide to a field which hithertoseems to have been much neglected by them. And, finally, the Zoologist will be glad of finding in it a general review of the Adriatic Fauna withits singularly varied character, and of the agencies by which its distributionhas been determined. I trust that the Author will be amply repaid for the sacrifices he hashad to make in the production of this work, by seeing its usefulness extendfar beyond the limits to which its contents relate. ALBERT GUNTHER. British Museum, 24 March, 1883. TO THE S far as I am aware, no comprehensive work has hithertobeen published on the Austro-Hungarian Antonio Marazzi, Vice-Consul for Trieste,addressed in 1873, to the Italian Ministry of ForeignAffairs, a report on the subject, from the point ofview of the Italian fishermen engaged in the EastAdriatic Valuable information on the samesubject was also prepared by Dr. Syrski for the Vienna Exhibition of1873, and published by the Marine Section of the Austrian Ministryof The following report, suggested by my learned colleague,Capt. R. F. Burton, Her Majestys Consul for Trieste, is intended totreat the subject in a more general sense, and to pave the way for acomprehensive work. The original plan has been considerably enlarged in the course ofexecution. Inquiries into the nomenclature o
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