154 PUBLICATIONS OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



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1874. Baird, Spencer F. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. | Part 

 II. I Report I of | the Commissioner | for | 1872 and 1873. | — | A. — Inquiry 

 into the decrease of the food-fishes. | B. — The propagation of food-fishes in 

 the waters | of the United States. | — | With supplementary papers. | Wash- 

 ington: I Government Printing Office. | 1874. 8vo, pp. cii, 808, pis. xxxvii, 

 4 maps. (U. S. F. C, No.9.) 



CONTENTS. 



REPOKT OF THE COMMISSIONEK. 



A. Inquiry into the decrease of the food-fishes. 



1. Preliminary steps p. i 



Passage of law and appointment of Commissioner i 



2. Investigations o/ 1871 i 



Researches at Wood's Hole, Mass ii 



Publications of report ii 



8. Investigations <f 1872 ii 



Researches at Eastport, Me iii 



Information from individuals iii 



Assistance from Dominion authorities iii 



Associates in the inquiry iii 



List of visitors at Eastport station iv 



Assistance rendered by the government v 



United States Revenue Marine v 



United States Coast Survey vii 



United States Signal Service x 



Visit to the British provinces vi 



Ocean temperatures and the herring fisheries vi 



Exploration of the Bache on George's Banks vii 



4. Corresponding researches of other nations viii 



German explorations of the North Sea viii 



Herring fisheries of Scotland 



5. Concurrent action of the United States Signal Service 



In taking temperature of water 



Signal station at Eastport, Me 



•6. Decrease of the cod-fisheries of the New England coast 



Concurrent with the erection of river-dams 



Due to consequent diminution of anadromous fish 



Erection of flsh ways necessary to their restoration iiv 



Comparative influence on the cod-fisheries of different shore-fish 



'Of alewives, shad, salmon xii 



Of sea-herring xiii 



7. Investigation in 1871 ond 1872 on the Great Lakes xiv 



Report by Mr. J W. Milner on whitefish, lake trout, &c iv 



B. Action in regard to propagation of food-fishes. 



8. Introductory measures xvi 



Action of American Fish-Culturists' Association xvi 



Consultation meeting in Boston in June xvii 



9. Propagation of shad in 1872 xvii 



Their transfer by Seth Green to the Alleghany and Mississippi xvii 



Their transfer by William Clift to the Platte, &c xvii 



Assistance rendered by express companies xvii 



By State commissioners xviii 



Concunent action of State flsh commissioners xviii 



10. Propagation of Maine salmon in 1872 xviii 



Mr. Atkins's salmon-breeding establishment at Bucksport, Me xviii 



Combination with State commissioners xix 



11. Propagation of the Rhine salmon in 1872 xix 



Impossibility of obtaining a full supply of eggs in America xix 



Correspondence with Deutsche Fischerei- Verein xix 



Donation of 250, 000 eggs by the German Government 



Purchase of 500,000 eggs in Freiburg xxi 



Transfer of eggs from Germany xxi 



