U.S. Federal Research on Fisheries and Limnology 

 in the Great Lakes through 1964: 

 An Annotated Bibliography 



By 



RALPH HILE, Fishery Biologist (Research) 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



ABSTRACT 



The annotated bibliography is preceded by a brief account of the Federal 

 research program in fisheries and limnology in the Great Lakes in 1957-64. The 

 bibliography covers 314 papers by staff members of the Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries Biological Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., and 35 by associated scien- 

 tists with whom the Laboratory had contractual or other cooperative arrangements; 

 included also are patents issued to Laboratory personnel. A roster of Laboratory 

 scientists as of December 31, 1964, is appended. 



INTRODUCTION 



This publication is the third of a series on 

 Federal research on fisheries and limnology 

 in the Great Lakes. The first report, "25 

 Years of Federal Fishery Research on the 

 Great Lakes," was issued in October 1952 

 (Special Scientific Report--Fisheries No. 85) 

 and the second, "U.S. Federal Fishery Re- 

 search on the Great Lakes through 1956," 

 appeared in October 1957 (Special Scientific 

 Report--Fisheries No. 226). 



Each of these earlier annotated bibliog- 

 raphies of publications by staff members of 

 the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biologi- 

 cal Laboratory in Ann Arbor^ carried also an 

 account of the research programs, including 

 federally supported studies by Walter N. Koelz 

 and John Van Oosten preceding the formal 

 establishment of the Laboratory in 1927. This 

 third bibliography is complete through 1964, 

 but descriptions of research programs are 

 limited to a brief review of developments after 

 1956. Those interested in the account of earlier 

 researches should consult the second of the 

 two preceding reports. 



^ Federal fishery research on the Great Lakes has been 

 carried out under three agencies. The Bureau of Fisheries 

 was combined with the Bureau of Biological Survey to form 

 the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1940. The Fish and Wild- 

 life Service was subdivided in 1956 into its present com- 

 ponents, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the 

 Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. The designation 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Biological Laboratory, 

 Ann Arbor, replaced the former Great Lakes Fishery In- 

 vestigations in 1959. To avoid confusion, the most recent 

 names are used throughout this publication. 



THE RESEARCH PROGRAM, 1957-64 



Calendar year 1957 was eventful for the 

 Bureau's Biological Laboratory at Ann Arbor. 

 It was the first full year in which research 

 on and experimental control of the sea lamprey 

 were carried out under contract with the 

 Great Lakes Fishery Commission; it was also 

 the year in which fishery research was 

 strengthened by the establishment of Biologi- 

 cal Stations on Lake Erie at Sandusky, Ohio, 

 and on Lake Superior at Ashland, Wis. The 

 sea lamprey unit opened also a field station 

 in Oconto, Wis., in 1957 but closed it in I960 

 when it was determined that the Lake Michi- 

 gan work could be carried out more efficiently 

 from existing stations at Marquette, Mich., 

 and Ludington, Mich. The Biological Station at 

 Marquette had operated continuously since 

 1950. The one at Ludington was established in 

 1956. 



Because of their independent budgeting, the 

 two major phases of the Laboratory's work in 

 1957-64 (sea lamprey research and control, and 

 general fishery research program) are treated 

 separately. 



Sea Lamprey 



Experimental control of the sea lamprey en- 

 tered a new phase in October 1957 with the 

 first field test, on a Lake Huron tributary, of 

 a selective larvicide in the halogenated nitro- 

 phenol series (3, 4, 6-trichloro-2-nitrophenol). 

 An additional test in early 1958 with the same 

 chemical and two tests with 3-trifluoro- 

 methyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM), all in Lake Supe- 

 rior tributaries, ended the test series. The 



