REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. Les 
PUBLICATIONS. 
During the fiscal year the following publications were issued and 
distributed, chiefly through the Supermtendent of Documents, on 
special mailing lists: 
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER AND APPENDIXES THERETO. 
Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal 
year ended June 30, 1915. 83 p. 
Alaska fisheries and fur industries in 1914. By Ward T. Bower and Henry D. 
Aller. Appendix 1x to Report of Commissioner for 1914. 89 p. 
The distribution of fish and fish eggs during the fiscal year 1915. Appendix 1 to 
Report of Commissioner for 1915. 138 p. 
Fish ponds on farms. By Robert 8. Johnson and M. F. Stapleton. Appendix 11 to 
Report of Commissioner for 1915. 28 p., 18 pl. 
BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
An ecological reconnoissance of the fishes of Douglas Lake, Cheboygan County, 
‘ Mich.,in midsummer. By Jacob Reighard. Bulletin, vol. xxxut, 1913, p. 215-250, 
4 text fig. 1915. 
The Potamogetons in relation to pond culture. By Emmeline Moore. Bulletin, vol. 
Xxx, 1913, p. 251-292, pl. xxn-xxxIx. 
Changes in shade, color, and patterns in fishes, and their bearing on the problems 
of adaptation and behavior, with especial reference to the flounders Paralichthys and 
Ancylopsetta. By S. O. Mast. Bulletin, vol. xxxrv, 1914, p. 173-238, pl. xrx- 
Xxxv0u, 3 text fig. 
The sharks and rays of Beaufort, N.C. By Lewis Radcliffe. Bulletin, vol. xxx1v, 
1914, p. 239-284, pl. xxxvuI-xLIx, 26 text fig. 
Copepod parasites of fresh-water fishes and their economic relations to mussel 
glochidia. By Charles Branch Wilson. Bulletin, vol. xxxiv, 1914, p. 331-374, 
pl. LX-LXXxIv. 
The fishes of the streams tributary to Tomales Bay, Cal. By John Otterbein Snyder. 
Bulletin, vol. xxxrv, 1914, p. 375-382, 1 text fig. 
The Fairport fisheries biological station: Its equipment, organization, and func- 
tions. By Robert E. Coker. Bulletin, vol. xxxiv, 1914, p. 383-406, 6 text fig., pl. 
LXXV-LXXXI. 
Notes on the embryology and larval development of five species of teleostean fishes. 
By Albert Kuntz. Bulletin, vol. xxxiv, p. 407-429, 68 text fig. 
SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS. 
The Bureau of Fisheries and its station at Woods Hole, Mass. 11 p., illus. 
The Bureau of Fisheries and its biological station at Beaufort, N.C. 11 p., illus. 
ECONOMIC CIRCULARS. 
Fishes destructive to the eggs and larve of mosquitoes. 19 p., 28 text fig. 
Oysters: The food that has not ‘‘gone up”. A little of their history and how to 
cook them. 16 p. . 
The tilefish: x new deep-sea food fish. 6 p., 2 text fig. 
Caviar: What it is and how to prepare it. 8 p., 3 text fig. 
Information concerning parasitic worms in fish. 4 p. 
STATISTICAL BULLETINS. 
Monthly and annual statements of the quantities and values of certain fishery prod- 
ucts landed by American fishing vessels at the ports of Gloucester and Boston, Mass., 
Portland, Me., and Seattle, Wash. 
Crab industry of Maryland and Virginia in 1915. 
Fresh-water mussel fishery of the Mississippi River and its western tributaries from 
Kansas northward in 1914. 
Coastal fisheries of New York and New Jersey, exclusive of shellfish, in 1915, with 
shad fishery of the Hudson River in 1915 and 1916. 
Shad and alewife industry of Chesapeake Bay and tributaries in 1915. 
