EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHEEIES. XXIII 



eries, and applications of fish-culture and fisheries. The following is a 

 copy of the resolution : 



JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing tlie Public Printer to print reports of the United 



States Fish Commissioner upon new discoveries in regard to fish-culture. 



Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That the Public Printer be, and he 

 hereby is, instructed to luMnt and stereotype, from time to time, any 

 matter furnished him by the United States Commissioner of Fish and 

 Fisheries relative to new observations, discoveries, and applications 

 connected with fish culture and the fisheries, to be capable of being dis- 

 tributed in parts, and the whole to form an annual volume or bulletin 

 not exceeding five hundred pages. The extra edition of said work shall 

 consist of five thousand copies, of which two thousand five hundred 

 shall be for the use of the House of Eepresentatives, one thousand for 

 the use of the Senate, and one thousand five hundred for the use of the 

 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 



This Bulletin was introduced by an article of 16 pages, accompanied 

 by 12 plates, upon the use of gill-nets in the cod-fishery, by Capt. J. W. 

 Collins. Of this paper 1,500 extra copies were also published and dis- 

 tributed in pamphlet form. There were 109 different articles published 

 in this Bulletin, among the more important of which were the follow- 

 ing: Observations on the food of young whitefish, by Prof. S. A. 

 Forbes ; Notes on the development of stickleback, Spanish mackerel, 

 shad, hippocampus, and silver gar, oysters, &c., by John A. Ryder j 

 Notes on the cod, mackerel, and other fishes of Gloucester, by S. J. 

 Martin; Notes on the life-history of the eel, by G. Brown Goode; 

 Carangoid fisheries of the United States, by G. Brown Goode; The 

 ■winter haddock fishery, by Goode and Collins ; Changes in the fisheries 

 of the Great Lakes, from 1870-'80, by C. W. Smiley; Notes on white- 

 fish-hatching apparatus, by Frank N. Clark ; Description of new species 

 of fish, by Jordan and Gilbert; and A discussion on the disease among 

 salmon in English waters, by Professor Huxley and S. Walpole. 



7. — THE PROPOSED STEAMER ALBATROSS. 



The steamer Fish Hawk, of the construction and performances of 

 which a full account has been given in the present and preceding 

 Eeports, was built to serve as a floating station for hatching the eggs 

 of shad and other fish, experience having shown that many important 

 stations need to be occupied only for a short time, without the necessity 

 of a permanent establishment. Thus, by means of a vessel like the 

 Fish Hawk, work can be begun at the South in the winter or early 

 spring, and the vessel moved, as the season advances, to more northerly 

 points, carrying with it, of course, all its outfit and equipment, and 



