. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1883 gpte gto&e* mul J^piosfemratt. 187 FISH. The United States Fisheries. The Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States, and the work of the United States Fish Commission, furnished by Professor Brown Goode, M. A., to the International Fish- eries Exhibition Congress, is a production, the importance of which could not be well estimated. Mr. Goode is the assist- ant director of the United States National Meseum, and any one who has inspected the court over which he has charge at the South Kensington Exhibition must have been struck with the admi
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1883 gpte gto&e* mul J^piosfemratt. 187 FISH. The United States Fisheries. The Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States, and the work of the United States Fish Commission, furnished by Professor Brown Goode, M. A., to the International Fish- eries Exhibition Congress, is a production, the importance of which could not be well estimated. Mr. Goode is the assist- ant director of the United States National Meseum, and any one who has inspected the court over which he has charge at the South Kensington Exhibition must have been struck with the admirable manner in which he and his colleagues have arranged that wonderfully interesting series of exhibits. The review in question was partly embodied in a conference pa- per, but a considerable portion of the statistical matter has been reserved for publication in the official pamphlet of eighty-four pages, recently issued by Clowes & Son. We would recommend all who are concerned in the general ques- tion of fishing as an industry, and in the progress of fish-cul- ture, to study what the Professor has to say upon the sub- jects. In the case of America, it is not so difficult as in some other countries to begin at the beginning; but the preliminary pages, which deal with the early history of the American fish- eries, are none the less interesting. European fishermen from France, England, Spain and Portugal followed quickly upon the great voyage of Christopher Columbus, so that with- in twenty-five years after the discovery by the intrepid navi- gator the crews of fifty vessels were plying their hand lines over the shoals of Newfoundland. As early as 1602 an au- thority named Gosnold declared that about Cape Cod from March to May there was "better fishing, and in as great plen- ty as in ; The first American colony, as Mr. Goode points out, which was planted at Jamestown in 1609, owed its permanence to the abundance of fish and oysters in the rivers. Its
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