PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



1871 - 1940 



Compiled by 



Barbara B. Aller 

 Office of Information 



The Bureau was knovm as the United States Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries from 1871 to 1903 and was an independent establishment of 

 the Government. It was included in the new Department of Commerce and 

 Labor in 1903 and designated the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 In 1913, the Department of Labor was separated and the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries was retained in the Department of Commerce. The Bureau was 

 transferred from the Department of Commerce to the Department of the 

 Interior in 1939 and in 1940 was consolidated with the Biological 

 Survey to form the Fish and Wildlife Service. 



The first publications issued as separates by the Fish Commission 

 did not have serial numbers printed on them, those being added later 

 by Charles W. Scudder who began the list of publications of the 

 organization. Others maintained the records through the years and 

 among them Jessie L. Drayton deserves special credit. Only the publi- 

 cations that were issued as separates are recorded here. In the early 

 bound volumes a number of historical papers appeared which dealt with 

 the state of various fisheries both here and abroad. These were not 

 published in the regular series and their titles are therefore 

 omitted. References to them may be found in Document 899, "An analy- 

 tical subject bibliography of the publications of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries 1871 - 1920." by Rose M. E. MacDonald, Appendix 5 to the 

 Report of the Commissioner for 1920 (1921). 



With the consolidation of the Bureau of Fisheries and the Biologi- 

 cal Survey into the Fish and Wildlife Service, the publications were 

 renamed: Report of the Director; Statistical Digest :Research Report; 

 Circular; with the biological bulletin series becoming the Fishery 

 Bulletin, No. 34 being the last issued under the Bureau of Fisheries. 



Publications that are out of print may be consulted in libraries, 

 especially those that are Government depositories. Documents now 

 available for purchase are listed in Price List 21 obtainable from 

 the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C. 



