United States Department of the Interior, Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, Albert M. Day, Director 



Special Scientific Report: Fisheries No. 8^ 



^5 YEARS OF FEDERAL FISHERY RESEARCH 

 ON THE GREAT LAKES 



by 



Ralph Hile 

 Fishery Research Biologist 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction. ....o .,.., 1 



The Great Lakes research program, 1927-52 2 



Years of intensive field work, 1927-32 , 2 



Period of reduced budgets , 19 33-li7 6 



Sea lampreys and the expanded Great Lakes 



Fishery Investigations , 19i|8-52 , 7 



Publications by staff members 9 



Publications by scientists associated with Great 



Lakes Fishery Investigations „ it3 



