CONTENTS 



Page. 



Report of the Commissioner vii-xxix 



Report on the Propagation and Distribution of Food-Fishes. By W. de C. 



Ravenel xxxi-cxxii 



Report on Inquiry respecting Food-fishes and the Fishing-Grounds. By 



Hugh M. Smith cxxiii-cxxvi 



Report of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries. By 

 C. H. Townsend cxLvn-CLXXV 



APPENDICES. 



Report on Mackerel Investigations in 1897. By J. Percy Moore 1-22 



Report on Fishes obtained by the Steamer Albatross in the vicinity of Santa 



Catalina Island and Monterey Bay. By Charles H. Gilbert 23-29 



Notes on the Extent and Condition of the Alewife Fishefies of the United 

 States in 1896. By Hugh M. Smith 31-43 



Report on the Oyster Beds of Louisiana. By H. F. Moore 45-100 



The Shad Fisheries of the Atlantic Coast of the United States. By Charles 



H. Stevenson 101-269 



List of Fishes collected at the Revillagigedo Archipelago and Neighboring 



Islands. By David Starr Jordan and R. C. McGregor 271-284 



Report on Investigations by the U. S. Fish Commission in Mississippi, Louisi- 

 ana, and Texas in 1897. By Barton W. E vermann 285-310 



List of Publications of the U. S. Fish Commission available for Distribution 

 March 1, 1899 311-327 



Report on the Exhibit of the U. S. Fish Commission at the Tennessee Centen- 

 nial Exposition in 1897. By W. de C. Ravenel 329-339 



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