PROGRESS IN BIOLOGICAL INQUIRIES, 1931 447 



SCHROEa)EK, W. C. 



Notes oil certain fishes collected off the New Ensland coast from 1024 to 



19o0. BuUetiii, Boston Society of Natural History, No. 58, pp. 3-S. 

 Au account of the fishes dredged by the Albatross II along the continental 



slope south of New England in February and March, 1929. Copeia, 



No. 2, pp. 41-46. 

 Sette. O. E. 



Research ship for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Fishing, Vol. XT, No. 10, 



pp. 9-11. 



In previous reports mention has been made of extensive coopera- 

 tion in fisheries research by States and other institutions. Such co- 

 operation has been continued, and even extended, to a most gratify- 

 ing degree during the past year. Not only has official support and 

 encouragement in specific projects been accorded by the States, but 

 active participation, either through the furnishing of considerable 

 funds or by coordinated activities on the part of the research staffs 

 of the individual State fish and game commissions, has been under- 

 taken to such an extent that activities of the bureau's staff have been 

 more effective and extensive than would have been the case other- 

 wise. Such cooperation, which is gratefully acknowledged by the 

 bureau, is in most cases mentioned in connection with the various 

 investigations in the following pages. 



The following progress reports covering the more important in- 

 vestigations of the division during the calendar year 1931 were pre- 

 pared in the main by the investigators in charge of the various 

 projects. 



NORTH AND MIDDLE ATLANTIC FISHERY INVESTIGATIONS 



Studies of important food fishes of the Atlantic coast north of 

 Cape Hatteras continued during 1931 to obtain much needed infor- 

 mation on the effects of natural conditions and commercial exploita- 

 tion on the abundance of cod, haddock, mackerel, squeteague, scup, 

 butterfish, and winter flounders. The scientific staff has had its 

 headquarters at Cambridge, Mass., where the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology and the Biological Laboratories of Harvard University have 

 generously provided laboratory and library facilities. This associa- 

 tion with the university has facilitated consulation with members of 

 the faculty when advice was needed in special phases of zoology, 

 physiology, chemistry, physics, and oceanography; and specially 

 valuable has been the counsel of Dr. Henry B. Bigelow, professor of 

 oceanography at Harvard University and director of the Woods Hole 

 Oceanographic Institution. The continued cooperation of Prof. 

 A. E. Parr, curator of the Bingham Oceanographic Foundation at 

 Yale University, in directing and conducting studies of the early 

 life histories of fishes along the coast of New Jersey has been an 

 invaluable supplement to the studies of the commercial fisheries of 

 that region. The New York aquarium has also kindly assisted in 

 the work by making collections of young fishes with its station vessel, 

 the ''^ro Horse, and many courtesies have been extended by the Woods 

 Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory at Woods Hole. The cooperation of these various organizations, 

 the friendly willingness of fishermen to give information on their 

 fishing operations, in some cases expending considerable effort in the 

 keeping of log-book records, and the kindness of fishing companies 



