Higgins, Elmer (continued) 



1928, Cooperative fishery investigations in Lake Erie. 

 Sci, Monthly, Vol. 27, pp. 301-306. 



General discussion of problems and goals of fishery 

 research and an outline of cooperative researches on Lake 

 Erie under the three general divisions: analysis of sta- 

 tistics of yield in relation to fishing intensity; life- 

 history studies (age, growth, mortality, migration, food,...) 

 of Important apecies; limnological and ecological inquiries 

 with special reference to pollution problems. 



1929 o Can the Great Lalces fisheries be saved? Outdoor 

 Araeriea, Vol, 7, No, 8, pp=, 3h-3^<. 



Comments on the \inique value and importance of the 

 Great Lakes fisheries, explanation of decreasing productiv- 

 ity as the result of overfishing^ and statement that adequate 

 and uniform regulations are needed to conserve and restore the 

 stocks, 



19380 The ineffectiveness of regulation of the Great Lakes 



fishej>ies by the individual states, Proc. Great Lakes 

 Fish, Gonf,, Detroit, Mich., Feb, 2^-26, 1938, Council 

 of State Governments, pp, U8^60. 



Review of bacteriological and limnological studies re- 

 futing contention that pollution hag been a significant factor 

 in the decline of Great Lakes fisheries, outline of evidence 

 that overfishing has been the major cause, and comments on the 

 impossibility of adequate regulation under divided control by 

 the individual atates. 



1938, Fish outlive officials. State Government, Vol, 11, 

 pp. 53-5i| and 58. 



Summary of arguments in support of belief that over- 

 fishing caused depletion of Great Lakes fisheries, review of 

 past failures to attain adequate regulations through voluntary 

 cooperation of state and provincial agencies, and recommenda- 

 tion for establishment of central control by means of inter- 

 national treaty, 



Hile, Ralph 



1932. Fish scales and commercial fisheries. The Fisherman, . 

 Vol. 1, No, 10, pp, 3-U and 10, 



Description of methods of determining age and growth from 

 scales and exajuples of application to fishery problems. 



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