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in the region about Buzzards Bay, where that speeies is known to 

 spawn abundantly, and where Mr. Edwards has conducted extensive 

 inquiries on the subject during several years past. 



TILEFISH. 



During a part of July and August, 1893, the schooner Grampus was 

 employed, under the immediate direction of tbe Commissioner, in 

 making fishing trials along the margin of the Gulf Stream slope off 

 the coast of southern New England, New York, and New Jersey, for 

 the purpose of determining the present range and abundance of the 

 tilefish, in continuance of the examinations conducted during the past 

 few years, as described in previous reports. A number of specimens, 

 weighing from 7 to 20 pounds apiece, were obtained, and the reestab- 

 lishmentof the species seems to be assured, although it does not appear 

 as yet to have been restored to its old-time abundance. 



TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS. 



The Fish Commission has continued to receive, through the courtesy 

 of the Light-House Board and the Southern Pacific Company, the daily 

 records of water-temperature observations taken at many seacoast and 

 inland stations, as follows: 



Temperature stations on the Atlantic Ciast. 



Stations of the Light-House Board: 



Coast of Maine : Petit Manan Island, Mount Desert Rock, Matinicus Rock, Seguiu 



Island, Boon Island. 

 Coast of Massachusetts : Race Point, Pollock Rip light-ship, Great Round Shoal 



light-ship, Nantucket New South Shoal light-ship, Cross Rip light-ship, 



Vineyard Sound light-ship. 

 Coast of Rhode Island: Brenton Reef light-ship, Block Island southeast light. 

 Long Island Sound : Bartlett Reef light-ship, Stratford Shoal light-ship. 

 Coast of New Jersey: Ahsecon Inlet, Five Fathom Bank light-ship. 

 Delaware Bay: Fourteen Foot Bank light-ship. 

 Coast of Virginia: Winter Quarter Shoal light-ship. 

 Chesapeake Bay: Windmill Point, Stingray Poiut, York Spit. 

 Coast of North Carolina: Cape Lookout, Frying Pan Shoal light-ship. 

 Coast of South Carolina: Rattlesnake Shoal light-ship, Martins Industry Shoal 



light-ship. 

 Coast of Florida: Fowey Rocks, Carysfort Reef, Dry Tortugas. 



Temperature stations on the Pacific Slope. 



Stations of the Southern Pacific Company: 



Sacramento River at Tehama and Yolo bridges and Kings Lauding, California. 



Feather River at Feather River Bridge, California. 



American River at American River Bridge, California. 



Mokelumne River at Lodi, Cal. 



Tuolumne River at Modesto, Cal. 



San Joaquin River at the upper and lower railroad crossings. 



King River at Kingsbxirg, Cal. 



Colorado River at Yuma, Ariz. 



