122 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Xotes un the Oyster Jiiditstri, of New Jersey. (Report 1892, pp. 463-528.) 



The importauce of the oyster industry of New Jersey and the exam- 

 ples there aft'orded for the prosecution of oyster-culture in localities 

 possessed of similar physical conditions make this paper timely and 

 A^aluable. It is based on original inquiries by Mr. Ansley Hall, field 

 agent of the division, during 1892, in the course of which all parts of 

 the State having oyster inteiests were visited and a careful study 

 made of the conditions, special attention being given to the methods of 

 planting and cultivation. New Jersey now ranks fourth among the 

 oyster-producing States, being surpassed only by Maryland, New York, 

 and Virginia, this high rank being largely the result of advanced 

 methods of oyster-culture. 



While the New Jersey Agricultural Exi)eriment Station has devoted 

 considerable attention to the embryology and natural history of the 

 oyster, no comprehensive account of the economic conditions of the 

 industry in that State had appeared since 1880. 



The report discusses the history and present condition of the indus- 

 try in each of the three iuiportant oyster regions, viz : (1) The northern 

 coast of New Jersey, (2) the ocean side of New Jersey, and (3) the New 

 Jersey side of Delaware Bay (Maurice Eiver Cove). The methods and 

 conditions here prevailing are, in many respects, dissimilar to those in 

 any other State, and there are many phases of the subject which afford 

 suggestive information of gieat value, not only to States in which the 

 artificial iiroduction of oysters has but recently been undertaken, but 

 those in which successful cultivation has long been practiced. 



The most recent data contained in the report relate to the calendar 

 year 1892, during which 4,351 persons were directly* engaged in the 

 oyster industry of the State, $1,393,892 was invested, and 1,097,228 

 bushels of marketable oysters were obtained, for which the producers 

 received $1,220,878. 



A Bibliography of ruhlications in the English Language relative to Oysters and the 

 Oyster Industries. (Report 1892, pp. 305-359.) 



Although the literature relative to the oyster and the oyster indus- 

 tries is very rich and comprehensive, yet it is so widely distributed 

 through publications and periodicals of almost every description that 

 the casual inquirer has difticulty in finding references to reports of any 

 special branch of the oyster business. This compilation is intended to 

 supi)ly the need experienced by many i)ersons interested in the litera- 

 ture of this important subject. The pai>er gives the titles and descrip- 

 tions of 510 separate publications, the work of 278 authors. Of these 

 articles, 294 Avere issued in the United States, 2G in Canada, 170 in 

 England, 25 in Scotland, 10 in Ireland, and 15 in various other couu- 

 tries. Of the American publications, 73 were printed by the United 

 States Fish Commission; of these, 25 were translations aud48oiigiual 

 articles. A brief account of the scope of most of the publications is 

 given, and abstracts of imi)()rtant or interesting statements occurring in 

 some of the i>a])crs enhance the value of the article. A subject index 



