122 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Xotcx on the Oj/filrr Iiidiislyii of Xew Jersei). (Report 1892, ])p. 463-528.) 



The imixn'tiuice of the oyster industry cf New Jersey and the exam- 

 l)les there alVorded lor the prosecution of oyster-culture in lociilities 

 possessed of similar i)hysieal conditions make this jjaper timely and 

 valuable. It is based on oriiiinal iuijuiries by Mr. Ansley Hall, field 

 agent of the division, during \Siy2, in the course of which all parts of 

 the State having oyster interests were visited and a careful study 

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

 idanting and cultivation. New Jersey now ranks fourth among tlie 

 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. 



Wliile the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 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 iiulus- 

 try in each of the three important 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 liiver Cove). The methods and 

 conditions here i)revailing are, in many respects, dissimilar to those in 

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

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

 artificial production 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 Avas invested, and I,(>!)7,228 

 bushels of nmrketable oysters were obtained, for which the producers 

 received $1,220,878. 



J Bihl\o(jraphii of rublicaiiona in the English Language relatirc to Ojisiern and the 

 Oijister 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 

 supply the need experienced by many persons interested in the litera- 

 ture of this important subject. The paper gives the titles and descrip- 

 tions of 540 separate publications, the work of 278 authors. Of these 

 articles, 294 were issued in the United States, 2(5 in Canada, 17() in 

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

 tries. Of the American i)ublications, 73 were printed by the United 

 States Fish Commission; of these, 25 were translations and 48 original 

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

 given, and absira<;ts of important or interesting statements occurring in 

 some of the papers enhance the value of the article. A subject index 



