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extent, if any, the supply may bo affected by the several methods employed for 

 its capture. 



"At the beginning of the fiscal year the schooner Grampus, E. E. Hahn, 

 master, and W. C. Kendall, naturalist, was investigating the off-shore mackerel 

 fisheries in the Gulf of Maine, with headquarters at Gloucester, Mass. The 

 latter part of July and the first half of August, 1894, were spent in cruising 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the season's work terminating at Gloucester the 

 last of August. In the spring of 1895 the Grampus was again detailed to the 

 study of this species, and continued to be so employed until the end of 

 the fiscal year. The inquiries were of the same character as in previous 

 seasons, being designed to secure as complete a history as possible of the early 

 movements of the mackerel as they approach and work up the coast on the 

 way to their several spawning and summer-schooling grounds. The cruise 

 began on April the 12th. Lewes, Del., was made the headquarters until 

 May 10, when, the body of fish having left southern waters, the Grampus 

 proceeded to the region off New York, and thence eastward over Georges and 

 Browns Banks to the coast of Nova Scotia. Here the schools of fish were 

 closely followed to Cape North, Cape Breton Island, and a short cruise made 

 into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The schooner returned the last of June to 

 Gloucester, where preparations were made to continue the inquiries during the 

 summer in the Gulf of Maine. 



" Shore parties were at work at all seasons of the year during which the 

 mackerel were present on the coast. During July and August, 1894, Captain 

 A. C. Adams and Dr. AV. E, Wolhaupter, with the assistance of the steamer 

 Fish HaivJi, were engaged on the coast of Maine, their investigations extending 

 eastward from Portland as far as Jonesport. All important fishing localities 

 were visited, the nets and catch inspected, and the fishermen interviewed. 

 Subsequently, and until late in the fall, Captain Adams was occupied mainly 

 with the study of the fishery from the ports of Gloucester, Boston, and 

 Portland, while Dr. Wolhaupter returned to the southern coast of New 

 England to complete his observations begun there the previous spring. Both 

 of these assistants again took up the field work in April, 1895. Captain 

 Adams' inquiries during the spring season were restricted to the coast of 

 Massachusetts, north of and including the waters about Cape Cod. Dr. 

 Wolhaupter began at Virginia Beach, Va., which is nearly as far south as 

 the mackerel strike the shore, and proceeded thence northward along the coast 

 as far as Cape Cod, visiting in succession nearly all localities where mackerel 

 are taken in shore nets. For a short period in the course of his trip he 

 was stationed in New York City, and then continued to the important 

 spawning region off Ehode Island and south-eastern Massachusetts, where 

 most of the month of June was spent. 



"Mr. B. L. Hardin was detailed as heretofore to conduct the customary 

 inquiries at Fulton Market, New York City, his observations being mainly 

 supplemental to those made on board the schooner Grampus, and designed 

 to complete the records bearing upon the off-shore fishery. Every fare landed 

 by the purse-seiners, which were then at work exclusively on the southern 



