38 APPENDIX. 



" iMr. 15. L. Hardin was stationed again this year at Fulton Market, New 

 York City, from April 21 to the last of May, his observations being mainly 

 supplemental to those conducted on board the schooner Grampus, and directed 

 chiefly toward completing the records bearing upon the early off-shore fishery. 

 Every fare landed by the purse-seiners from the southern grounds, as well as all 

 specimens received from the shore fisheries tributary to New York, were in- 

 spected by Mr. Hardin, and everything that could be learned relating to their 

 capture and conditions was fully noted. Convenient office and laboratory 

 accommodations were supplied gratuitously by Hon. E. G. Blackford, through 

 whom, and the other prominent fish-dealers of the city, !Mr. Hardin was 

 afforded the fullest opportunity for the successful prosecution of his 

 inquiries. 



" Mr. H. F. Moore, of the University of Pennsylvania, was detailed to the 

 study of the shore fisheries from their southern limit at Virginia Beach, Va., 

 to Ehode Island. His work was begun at the south at the commencement 

 of the season, and was carried northward, all of the principal fishing centres 

 being visited, the fishermen interrogated, specimens examined wherever 

 possible, and blanks left to be filled in with daily records of the catch. In 

 this manner a very complete account was secured of the shore relations of the 

 mackerel during the period of their early movements, a subject which had not 

 hitherto been given much attention. 



" Dr. W. E. Wolhaupter was given the section of coast from Ehode Island 

 to the outer side of Cape Cod, including the important spawning and hooking 

 grounds between Block Island and Nomans Land, and the extensive trap-net 

 fisheries of Vineyard and the Nantucket Sounds. Tlie steamer Fish Hawk 

 also assisted in the work here during a part of June. The region between 

 Cape Cod and the Bay of Fundy, including the coast waters of Massachusetts, 

 New Hampshire, and Maine, and the Gulf of Maine, was assigned to Captain 

 A. C. Adams, formerly in command of the schooner Grampus, and having 

 a long experience in connection with the mackerel fishery. His inquiries were 

 started at Province Town on Cape Cod, about the middle of May, and were 

 thence extended along the shores of Massachusetts Bay, Cape Ann, and the 

 coast farther north to Portland, where he was joined by the steamer Fish Hawk 

 and Dr. Wolhaupter in the latter part of June. By the close of the year the 

 examination had been carried as far east as Boothbay Harbour." 



Commissioner's Report, 1895, p. 80. — "The observations made in 1893-94, 

 respecting the natural history of the mackerel and the fisheries to which 

 it gives rise, were repeated during the past year in accordance with the same 

 l)lan, and on practically the same basis. The capricious habits of the species, 

 its fluctuating abundance as indicated by the size of the catch, its wide dis- 

 tribution and far-reaching movements, make it one of the most difficult of all 

 the commercial fishes to study or to comprehend. It is thought, however, that 

 the series of investigations, which has been in progress for several years, and 

 which is still to be continued, will throw much new light upon the practical 

 questions connected with its history, and will aid in determining to what 



