Excerpt from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society: Fourteenth Annual Meeting, Held at the National Museum, in Washington, D. C., May 5th and 6th, 1885 I will preface this paper, gentlemen, by saying that my paper contains some statements which are so at variance with all my former experiences that I almost hesitate to read what I have written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.