The Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission.
Selected Reports from 1886... About the U.S. Fish Commission

1886

Notes on Lobster Culture
By Richard Rathbun February 8 1886

Vegetable Parasites of Codfish
By W. G. Farlow. February 8, 1886.

New England Fisheries in January 1886
W.A. Wilcox Feb. 27, 1886.

The Fisheries of Canada in 1884
W.A. Wilcox Feb. 27, 1886.

Scarcity of Cod and Haddock on the Coast of Maine.
By N.V.Tibbetts [Letter to Prof. S. F. Baird February 27, 1886] (1 page)

A Reasoning Lobster by Willard Nye May 10, 1886

Fishing in the Navigable Waters of the United States.
A report to the House of Representatives by Hon. J. R. Tucker, May 13, 1886.

Notes on Certain Fishery Industries of Eastport Maine in 1886.
By R. Edward Earll

Young Mackerel destroyed by small mesh seines.
By B. P. Chadwick. [From a July 6, 1886 letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.]

Dead Fish on the Coast of Rhode Island
By Herbert H. Knowles [From a letter to Prof. S. F. Baird. July 11, 1886]

Report on the Distribution of fFish and Eggs by the U.S. Fish Commission for the season of 1885-86. ...(To Part 2)
By Marshall McDonald.

Notes on an 1885 Investigation of the Great Fishing Banks of the Western Atlantic
by JW Collins, Dec. 31, 1886 PART 1 (6 pages)

Notes on an 1885 Investigation of the Great Fishing Banks of the Western Atlantic
by JW Collins, Dec. 31, 1886 PART 2 (7 pages)

Notes on the Seal and Whale Fishery of 1886
By Thomas Southwell, FZS. [From the Zoologist, London, England, May, 1887.]

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