540 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
1910; the shad fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries in 
1909; the menhaden industry in 1912; the lobster fisheries in 1900 and 
1913; and the oyster fishery in 1911. The years for which statistics 
are available on the shad fishery of the Hudson River are given in the 
section entitled ‘‘Shad and alewife fisheries.” 
In the Chesapeake Bay States statistics on the catch of the marine 
fisheries and those conducted in coastal rivers and bays of these 
States were collected for the years 1880, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1897, 
1901, 1904, 1908, 1920, 1925, and for all the years from 1929 to 1937, 
inclusive. Data on operating units and wholesale and manufacturing 
trade also were collected for most of these years. In addition to the 
above, a statistical survey was made of the crab fishery for 1915; the 
oyster fishery and menhaden industry for 1912; and the shad and 
alewife fisheries for 1896, 1909, and 1915. The years for which sta- 
tistics of the shad and alewife fisheries of the Potomac River are avail- 
able are given in the section entitled “Shad and alewife fisheries.”’ 
In the South Atlantic and Gulf States statistics on the catch of the 
marine fisheries and those conducted in the coastal rivers and bays of 
these States were collected for the years 1880, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1897, 
1902, 1908, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 
and 1937. Data on operating units and wholesale and manufacturing 
trade also were collected for most of these years. In addition to the 
above, a statistical survey was made of the fisheries of these States, 
excluding Florida and Alabama, for 1887; the shad fishery of the 
South Atlantic States for 1910; the shad and alewife fisheries of the 
South Atlantic States for 1896; the sturgeon fishery of Florida for 
1900; the menhaden industry of the South Atlantic States for 1912; 
the shrimp fishery for 1916; the oyster fishery of the South Atlantic 
States for 1910; and the oyster fishery of the Gulf States for 1911. 
In the Pacific Coast States statistics on the catch of the marine 
fisheries and those conducted in the coastal rivers and bays of these 
States were collected for the years 1880, 1888, 1892, 1895, 1899, 1904, 
1908, 1915, and for all the years from 1922 to 1937, inclusive. These 
surveys have usually included data on operating units and wholesale 
and manufacturing trade. In addition to the above, statistics were 
obtained on the fisheries of California from 1918 to 1921, inclusive, and 
for the oyster fishery in 1912. 
Statistics on the catch of the fisheries of the Great Lakes were 
collected for the years 1880, 1885, 1890, 1893, 1899, 1903, 1908, and for 
all the years from 1913 to 1937, inclusive. Statistics of the operating 
units and of the wholesale and manufacturing trade were collected for 
most of the years when canvasses were made from 1880 to 1908, and in 
1917 and 1922 as well as in most of the years from 1926 to 1937, inclu- 
sive. In addition to the above a survey was made of the fisheries of 
Lake Ontario and of certain fisheries in other lakes for the year 1897. 
Statistics of the catch of the fisheries of the Mississippi River and 
its tributaries were collected for the years 1894, 1899, 1903, 1908, 1922, 
and 1931. In addition, figures have been obtained of the fisheries of 
Lakes Pepin and Keokuk for the years 1914 and 1917 and the years 
from 1927 to 1937, inclusive, and of the fisheries of the Mississippi 
River between Lakes Pepin and Keokuk for the years 1929 to 1937, 
inclusive. 
Statistics also were collected on the fisheries of certain interior 
waters, other than the fisheries of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi 
