THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 



By KARTOX WARRKX KVKRMANX and KDMrXD LlvK ('rO]J)SK()R()T"GH. 



An investigation of tlii' sulnion ilshorics of Alaska was nuulo during the sununcr 

 and fail of 1003 b}- a special commission ai)point('(l by the C'ommissionor of Fislicrics 

 at the request of the President, and a report thereon by David Starr Jordan and 

 Barton Warren Evermann, published January 30, 1904, as House Document 

 Xo. 477, Fifty-eighth Congress, secontl session, considered fuHy all the phases of the 

 salmon fisheries concerning which legislation was urgently needled, l^arge collections 

 of fishes and other aquatic animals were secured, however, and much information 

 concerning the halnts, alnmdance, and distribution of the salmon and other fishes. 

 It is the ])urpose of the present paper to put on record the more important of these 

 facts and to di.scuss more fully some of the chief problems connected with the salmon 

 fisheries. 



In order to represent fully the scope of the investigations of the special conmiis- 

 sion, it has been thought advisable to include in this report the species of fishes 

 obtained during the dretlging and other collecting operations in British Columbia 

 and Puget Sound. All species previously recorded from Alaskan waters have been 

 listed also, and all Alaskan specimens in the U. S. National Museum have been 

 examined. Attempt has thus been made to embody in this paper a complete 

 review of the fishes of Alaska to date. The commercial and statistical ]ihases of 

 the fisheries have been fully discussed in reports by Mr. John X. Cobb, assistant agent 

 at the salmon fisheries of Alaska." 



The following new species are described in this rei)ort. The nund)ers in 

 parentheses are those of the tyjies as registered in the U. S. Xationsd Museum. 



Polistotrema deani (.57820). Blennicoltus clarki (.57824). 



St'bastodes swifti (57821). Pholis gilli (57827). 



Icelinus burcharai (57822). Luinpenu.s loiigiro.stris (57828). 



Cottus chambcrlaini (57823). Lycodfs jordani (5782!)). 



Accompanying this report are 20 colored plates, made from water-color draw- 

 ings of living fishes. Cuts of all the new species herein described are inserted in the 

 text, as are also numerous others.'' 



" The Commercial Fisheries of Alaskii in l!10.i. .■ind The FLsheries of .\laska in WIX;. Bureau of Fislvries Documents 

 Nos. (i03 and C18. 



f' The colored drawings and the pen anil inlc drawings of all but three r.f thenew speeie.s were niaile by .Mr. .\. II. Baldwin. 

 Lumpenus longiroslris and Polislotrcmn deani were drawn by Miss .\nna S. Buckelew. Lycmlis jordani by Miss Violet 

 Dandridge. 



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