A. INQUIRY RESPECTING FOOD-FISHES AND THE FISHING GROUNDS.
B. PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES.

With supplementary papers.

WASHINGTON.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1889. Cover

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I. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. (49 pages)
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APPENDICES

II. LIST OF PAPERS & ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE APPENDICES.

A. THE FISHERIES.

I. Baird. THE SEA FISHERIES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. By Spencer F. Baird.
Special index to report

B. SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.

II. Jordan and Goss. A REVIEW OF THE FLOUNDERS AND SOLES (PLEURONECTIDAE) OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. By David Starr Jordan and David Kop Goss. Nine Plates. Special index. 225

III. Jordan and Eigenmann. A REVIEW OF THE SCIAENIDAE OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. By David Starr Jordan and Carl H. Eigenmann. Four plates. Special index. 343

IV. Linton. NOTES ON ENTOZOA OF MARINE FISHES OF NEW ENGLAND, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW SPECIES. By Edwin Linton. Six plates. Special index. 453

V. Fewkes. REPORT ON THE MEDUSAE COLLECTED BY THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION STEAMER ALBATROSS, IN THE REGION OF THE GULF STREAM, IN 1885-'86. By J. Walter Fewkes. One plate. Special index. 513

C. FISH-CULTURE.

VI. Bettoni and Vinciguerra. ON THE FISH CULTURAL ESTABLISHMENTS OF CENTRAL EUROPE. By Eugenio Bettoni and Decio Vinciguerra, Special index 539

D. REPORTS OF VESSELS AND STATIONS.

VII. Tanner. REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE U.S. FISH COMMISSION STEAMER ALBATROSS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1886. By Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. Navy, commanding. Ten plates. Special index. 605

VIII. Smith. REPORT OF OPERATIONS OF THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION STEAMER FISH HAWK FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1886. By Mate James A. Smith U.S. Navy, commanding.

IX. REPORT ON THE OPERATIONS OF THE STEAMER HALCYON FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1886. 699

X. Collins. REPORT ON THE OPERATIONS OF THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION SCHOONER GRAMPUS FROM JUNE 5, 1886, TO MARCH 15, 1887. By Capt. J. W. Collins. One Plate. Special index 701

XI. Mather. REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK, DURING THE SEASON OF 1886. By Fred Mather. 721

XII. Clark. REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT THE MICHIGAN STATIONS OF THE U.S. FISH COMMISSION FOR THE YEAR 1986-'87. By Frank N. Clark. 729

XIII. Stone. REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT THE UNITED STATES SALMON AND TROUT STATIONS ON THE MCCLOUD RIVER, CALIFORNIA, FOR THE YEARS 1885-'87. By Livingston Stone. 737

XIV. Atkins. REPORT ON THE PROPAGATION OF PENOBSCOT SALMON IN 1886-'87. By Charles G. Atkins. 747

XV. Atkins. REPORT ON THE PROPAGATION OF OF SCHOODIC SALMON AT GRAND LAKE STREAM, MAINE, IN 1886-'87. By Charles G. Atkins. 751

XVI Ravenel. REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT BATTERY STATION, HAVRE DE GRACE, MD, FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1886. By W. de C. Ravenel

XVII. Ravenel. REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT SAINT JEROME OYSTER-BREEDING STATION FOR THE YEAR 1886. By W. de C. Ravenel.

XVIII. Carswell. REPORT ON THE ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF THE CODFISH AT WOOD'S HOLL, MASS., FOR THE SEASON OF 1885-'86. By James Carswell. 779

XIX. Atkins. REPORT ON THE ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF CODFISH AT WOOD'S HOLL, MASS., FOR THE SEASON OF 1886-'87. By Charles G. Atkins. 783

XX. McDonald. REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT THE WYTHEVILLE STATION,VIRGINIA, FROM JANUARY 1, 1885, TO JUNE 30, 1887. By Marshall McDonald. Six plates. 793

XXI. McDonald. REPORT OF SHAD DISTRIBUTION FOR THE SEASON OF 1886 By Marshall McDonald 801

XXII. Grabill. REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT THE SHAD-HATCHING STATION ON BATTERY ISLAND, NEAR HAVRE DE GRACE, MD. DURING THE SEASON OF 1886. By L.R. Grabill. 807

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XXIII. McDonald. REPORT OF SHAD PROPAGATION ON THE POTOMAC RIVER DURING THE SEASON OF 1886. By Marsball McDonald 815

XXIV. Smith. REPORT ON THE SHAD WORK OF THE STEAMER FISH HAWK, DURING THE SEASON OF 1886 By Mate James A. Smith, U.S. Navy, commanding. 819

XXV. Smith. REPORT ON THE SHAD WORK OF THE STEAMER LOOKOUT DURING ITS SEASON OF 1886. By Mate James A. Smith, U.S. Navy, commanding. 825

XXVI. Mather. REPORT OF EGGS SHIPPED TO AND RECEIVED FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES AT THE COLD SPRING HARBOR NEW YORK STATION, DURING THE SEASON OF 1886-'87. By Fred Mather 829

XXVII. McDonald. REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF FISH AND EGGS BY THE U.S. FISH COMMISSION FROM JANUARY 1, 1896, TO JUNE 30, 1887. By Marshall McDonald. 833

XXVIII. DISTRIBUTION OF DUPLICATE SETS OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES, 1879-1886. Special index 843

E. MISCELLANEOUS.

XXIX. Smith. LIST OF THE DREDGING STATIONS OF THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION, THE U.S. COAST SURVEY, AND THE BRITISH STEAMER CHALLENGER IN NORTH AMERICAN WATERS, FROM 1867 TO 1887, TOGETHER WITH THOSE OF THE PRINCIPAL EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT EXPEDITIONS IN THE ATLANTIC AND ARCTIC OCEANS. By Sanderson Smith. Five charts. 871
Title Page and Preface
Table Of Contents
List of Dredging Charts
Dredge Charts and tables Gulf of Maine, Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Alaskan waters
Dredging Stations of the U.S. Fish Commission from 1871 to 1879
Dredging Stations Fish Hawk 1880,1881,1882
Report of Dredgings of the Albatross for 1883, by Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder, USN Navigator
Dredging stations of US Coast Survey Steamers Corwin, Bibb, Hassler, and Blake 1867 to 1880
Dredging Stations of the Challenger in the Atlantic Ocean, 1872 to 1876
Deep Sea Dredgings of French dispatch boat Le Travailleur, Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean 1880
Dredgings of Le Travailleur in 1882
Dredging of the French Steamer Talisman, 1883
Dredging of the Italian Steamer Washington in the Mediterranean, 1881
Zoological Stations of the Norwegian North Atlantic Expeditions, 1876-1878
Dredging Stations of the Danish Arctic Expedition 1882-1883
Dredging and Sounding Stations of the British Steamer Lightning 1868.
Series of Temperatures taken by the Speedwell in 1877, 1878, and 1879

XXX. Kostytscheff. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF FISH PRODUCTS, WITH SOME REMARKS ON THEIR NUTRITIVE VALUE. By Prof. P. Kostytscheff, Agricultural Station, St. Petersburg, Russia 1019

XXXI. Maurine. REVIEW OF CASES OF POISONING CAUSED BY SPOILED CODFISH, AND THE UNNECESSARY PROHIBITION OF THE SALE OF REDDENED CODFISH. By Dr. E. Mauriac. 1027

XXXII. Kiaer. NOTES ON THE NORWEGIAN FISHERIES OF 1885 By A. N. Kiaer, Norges Officielle Statistik 1886, 3d Series, No 29, Christiania, Norway. 1055

GENERAL INDEX 1065

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