20 KEPOKT OF THE COMMISSIONEK OF FISHEKIES. 



necessity' for and the results of tisb-cultural operations of the j^ov- 

 ernnient and states, and is indispensable in furnishing- a basis for 

 legislation. 



The results of the incpuries in diti'erent regions with reference to 

 the extent, condition, and methods of their economic fisheries, and of 

 the inv^estigation of special branches of the fishing industry" to which 

 attention has been given during the year arc shown in the appended 

 report of the assistant in charge. General canvasses have been con- 

 ducted in the New England, South Atlantic and Gulf States, and the 

 Hawaiian Islands, and special inquiries have been made into the con- 

 dition of the vessel lisheries centering at Doston and Gloucester, Mass. ; 

 the fisheries of the interior waters of Florida; interior lakes and 

 streams of New York and Vermont; the Pacitic cod and halibut fish- 

 eries, and the whale tisher\' centering at San Francisco. There have 

 also been very complete canvasses of the statistics and methods of the 

 salmon industry of Washington. Oregon, California, and Alaska in 

 conjunction with the work of the special salmon commission. 



MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER MATTERS. 

 CIIANOES IX rKHSOXNEL. 



In the death of Mr. Cloudsle3'Ilutter, which occurred November 28, 

 1908, the Bureau has lost the services of a very conscientious and effi- 

 cient assistant. Mr. Kutter l)ecame connected with the Bureau in 

 1897 as scientitic assistant, and at the time of his death was naturalist 

 of the steamer ^ !//'(/?'/ Y>.v.s-. He took an active part in biological investi- 

 gations on the Pacitic coast, and his Avork on the salmon added much 

 to the knowledge of the habifs of those fishes. Mr. Kutter was suc- 

 ceeded by Mr. F. M. Chaml)erlain, general assistant on the Alhatross. 



The Bureau has lost another valued emplo3'ee, Capt. S. J. Martin, 

 whose death occurred June lU, 1904. Since 1888 he had rendered 

 faithful service at his home in Gloucester, Mass., in collecting statistics 

 of the important tisheries centering there. 



Mr. William Barnum, an employee of the Bureau since 1891, and 

 for many years editor of the Bureau's pu1)lications, resigned February 

 12, 1901, to take the position of chief clerk of the Carnegie Institution. 



At the request of the minister of the Argentine Republic, trans- 

 mitted through the Department of State, Mr. John \V. Titcomb, 

 assistant in charge of fish-culture, was granted leave of absence without 

 pa}' for nine months beginning September 1, 1903, in order to make 

 arrangements to inaugurate fish-cultural work on the part of the 

 government of that country. 



Mr. E. A. Tulian, for a long time superintendent of the hatchery at 

 Leadville, Colo., resigned in order to take fish eggs to Argentina and 



