THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 



By BARTON WARREN EVERMANN AND EDMUND LEE GOLDSBOROUGH. 



An investigation of the salmon fisheries of Alaska was made (luring the summer 

 and fall of 1903 by a speeial commission appointed by the Commissioner of Fisheries 



at the request of the President, and a report thereon by David Starr Jordan and 

 Barton Warren Evermann, published January 30, 1904, as Bouse Document 



No. 477, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, considered fully all the phases of the 

 salmon fisheries concerning which legislation was urgently needed. Large collections 

 of fishes and other aquatic animals were secured, however, and much information 

 concerning the habits, abundance, and distribution of the salmon and other fishes. 

 It is the purpose of the present paper to put on record the more important of these 

 facts and to discuss more fully some of the chief problems connected with the salmon 

 fisheries. 



In order to represent fully the scope of the investigations of the special commis- 

 sion, it has been thought advisable to include in this report the species of lishes 

 obtained during the dredging and other collecting operations in British Columbia 

 and Puget Sound. All species previously recorded from Alaskan waters have been 

 listed also, and all Alaskan specimens in the U. S. National Museum have been 

 examined. Attempt has thus been made to embody in this paper a complete 

 review of the fishes of Alaska to date. The commercial and statistical phases of 

 the fisheries have been fully discussed in reports by Mr. John X. ( lobb, assistant agent 

 at the salmon fisheries of Alaska." 



The. following new species are described in this report. The numbers in 

 parentheses are those of the types as registered in the U. S. National Museum. 



Polifstotrema deani (57820). Blennicottus clarki (5782 1 1. 



Sebastodes ewifti (,57821). Pbolia gilli (57SU7 i. 



[celinus burchami (57822). Lumpenus longirostris (57828). 



Cottus chamberlaini (57823). Lycodes jordani (57829). 



Accompanying this report are 20 colored plates, made from water-color draw- 

 ings of living fishes. Cuts of all the new species herein described are inserted in the 

 text, as are also numerous others. 6 



a The Commercial Fisheriesof Alaska in 1905, and Thr Fisheries of Alaska in 190c'.. Bureau ol Fisheries Documents 

 Nos. 603 and 618. 



6 The colored drawings and the pen and ink drawings of all but three of the oew species were mad! bj Mr. A. 11. Baldwin. 

 lumpenus longirostris and Polistotrema deani were drawn by Miss Anna s. Buckelew, Lycodes jordani by Miss Violet 

 Dandridge. 



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