PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 783 



Questions concerning fishing vessels, shore and boat fishing, pounds, 

 weirs, traps, and fykes, gill-nets, seines, fish pots and eel-pots, the three- 

 mile line, disposition of the fish, estimates of annual yield, and address 

 of fishermen. Circular and 55 questions. 4 pp. 13.5 by 26 cm . 



20. [Serial mark T £ T f .] Statistics of the fish trade, Xew York mar- 

 ket. Dealers' statement. Blanks for the number of pounds each of 

 thirty leading kinds of food-fish, received each day during the month. 

 32 columns, 2 pp. 41.5 by 31.5 cm . 



21. [Serial mark E£.] Statistics of the whale fisheries. Censils 

 blanks. Blanks for recording the number and kind of vessels, tonnage, 

 and yield of oil. 13 columns, 2 pp. 13.5 by ll cm and 21 by 31 cm . 



22. [Serial mark A.] Becord of hatching operations. Blank for re- 

 cording temperatures, wind, tide, fish and eggs taken. 22 columns, 2 

 pp., each 41.5 by 32 cm . 



23. [Serial mark B.] Becord of operations of State fish commission- 

 ers in hatching and distributing young fish. Blanks for recording num- 

 ber of eggs received, time of journey, condition, loss in unpacking, in 

 hatching, in distributing, place where planted, &c. 18 columns, 2 pp., 

 each 41.5 by 32 cm . 



24. [Serial mark C] Becord of distribution of fish. Blanks for 

 recording date, number, place of introduction, stream, person in charge, 

 cS:c. 12 columns, 1 p. 41.5 by 32 cra . 



25. Becord of collection of eggs. 



1878. 



26. [Serial mark Ef .] Bart IV. Beport of the Commissioner for 

 1875-'7G. A. Inquiry into the decrease of the food-fishes. B. The propa- 

 gation of food-fishes in the waters of the United States. Pamphlet. 

 Svo. 69 pp. 11.2 by 19.5 cm . 



27. BartlV. Beport of the Commissioner for 1875-76. A. Inquiry into 

 the decrease of the food-fishes. B. The propagation of food-fishes in the 

 waters of the United States, with appendices. Cloth. Svo. Bp. 69, 

 1029. Plates vi. 



28. [Serial mark Eg.] Questions relative to the cod and the cod fish- 

 eries. Circular-letter acknowledging responses to questions on food- 

 fishes and soliciting further information. Questions regarding name, 

 characteristics, distribution, movements, food, reproduction, enemies, 

 fatalities, in-shore fisheries, off-shore fisheries, and the products. 90 

 questions. 4 pp. 13.5 by 26.5 cm . 



29. [Serial mark T £ T T V] Questions relative to the alewife and the ale- 

 wife fisheries. Circular-letter stating that Mr. C. G. Atkins desires to 

 prepare a report and asking concerning the name, characteristics, abun- 

 dance, movements, food, reproduction and growth, enemies, fatalities, 

 capture, curing and marketing, sources of information. S2 questions. 

 4 pp. 13.5 by 26 cm . 



30. [Serial mark E T R T .] Questions relative to the smelt and the smelt 



