REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES 



CONTENTS 



Inquiry respecting food fishes? 



lutroduction 



Atlantic coast fishes 



Pacific coast fishes 



Fishes of inland waters 



Oysters 



Fresh-watov mussels 



Alaska clams 



Investigations relating to fish culture 



Mosquito control by means of fish 



Fouling of ships" bottoms 



Investigations in El Salvador 



North American committee on fishery investigation 



Propagation and disrrilmtion of food fislies 



Need for fish-cultural operations 



Keview of operations 



Relalions with States and foreign governments 



Propagation of Pacific salnnnis 



iVimmercial fishes of the Great Lakes 



Marine species ot the North Atlantic 



Migratory fishes of Atlantic rivers 



Salvage of food fishes from overflowed lands 



Propagation of fishes of interior waters 



Fishery industries 



Review 



Technological investigations 



• 'anning sardines 



Preservation of nets 



Iodine content of sea foods 



Educational work 



Foreign-trade informnti<»n 



Salt-fish trade 



Canned fishery products and by-px"oducts 



Frozen-fisli trade 



New England vessel fisheries 



Fisheries at Seattle. Wash 



Fisheries nf California 



Shad and alewife fishery of the Potomac River 



Fisheries of the Mississippi Kiver and tributaries 



Fishei'ies of the Ort-at Lakes 



Florida sponge fishery 



Alaska service 



Extent of the Alaska fisheries 



Visit to Alaska by President Harding and other otficials. 



New Alaska fishery legislation and r(^gulations 



Alaska salmon hatcheries 



Speciiil studies and investigations 



Alaska fur-seal service 



(ieneral activities at the Pribilof Islands 



Seal herd 



Take of sealskins 



Markintr of reserved seals 



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