nSHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 193 



EESULTS OF WORK. 



1. Publications of the Commission— Continued. 



15. Questions ; food-fishes. 2d ed. 1877. 



16. Circular. Statistics ; mackerel, &c. To accompany 15. 1877. 



17. Circular. Statistics; cod lisliiug, &c. To accompany 15. 1877. 



18. Circular. S> u. is. ics: mullet tishin<-, »fcc. To accompany 15. 1877. 



19. Circular. Statistics of coast and river fisheries. 1877. 



20. New York mark(-t blanks. 1877. 



21. Statistics of the whale-fishery; census blanks. 



22. (a) Pi'opajiation scries. 



23. (b) Propagutiou series. 



24. (c) Propagatiou series. 



25. Record of collect iou of eggs. 



26. Report. Part IV. 1878. 



27. Report. Part IV, with supplement. 

 1878. Baird, Spenceb F. 



United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. | — | Part IV. | — | 

 Report I of | the Commissioner | for | 1875-1876. | — | A.— Inquiry 

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

 food-fishes in the waters of tbe United States. | — | Washing- 

 ton : I Government Printiui; Office. | 1878. 8vo., pp. ix,50*, 1029, 

 plates vi (Hist, of Whale Fishery.) 

 CONTENTS. 

 I.— Report of the Commissioner. 



A. — General considerations. Page. 



1 . Introductory remarks 



Operatioua of previous years 



Precaution and i imc required bj- the work 



Danger of liasty generalizations 



Methods and direction of research 



Utilization of work already performed liy other depart- 

 ments of the government 2 



Corresponding labors of other nations 2 



Kapid increase in the work of the United States Fish Com- 

 missioner 3 



Originally confined to inquiry into the present condi- 

 tion of the fisheries 3 



Multiplication of food-flabes subsequently added 3 



No intermission in the work of the Commissioner 3 



Amount of correspondence 3 



Principal associates and assistants in the work 3 



Fisheiies branch 4 



Di.stribution branch 4 



Period of time covered by the report 4 



B. — Inquiry into the decrease of the food-fishes. 



2. Investigations and operations of 1875 4 



Selection of "Wood's Hole as a station 4 



For comparison of results with those of 1871 4 



Convenient point for preparing fishery exhibit at Phila- 

 delphia in 1876 5 



Detail of steamer Blue Light by the Navy Department 6 



Beginning of the work 5 



Associates, assistants, and visitors 6 



Establishment of a permanent laboratory 6 



Location and building furnished by the Light-House 



Board 6 



The fitting up, mainly by private contributions 6 



Close of season * 



Statistics of Whale fishery • 



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