REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 167 



A list of the articles issued, with a brief notice of tlieir character, is 

 as follows: 



Report on the coast fisheries of Texas. (Report, 1889-1801, pp. 373-420, pis. 



12-27.) 



This report is based on field inquiries conducted in 1891, and is sup- 

 plementary to the notice of the Texas fisheries contained in the report 

 on the fisheries of the Gulf States, published in the Bulletin for 1891. 

 The principal fisheries of the coast are first fully discussed, and then 

 the fisheries are reviewed by geographical divisions. The paper is 

 accompanied by 15 plates of the principal food-fishes of the coast 

 waters of the State. 



The oyster industry of Maryland. (Bulletin, 1892, pp. 203-297, pis. lvi-lxxi.) 



The economic aspects of the oyster interests of the State having the 

 most valuable oyster industry are considered in this paper. A history 

 of the Maryland oyster-fishery from the earliest times is given, with 

 an account of the legislation enacted for its regulation, the oyster- 

 grounds, the methods pursued in oystering, oyster-culture, the oyster- 

 police and the oyster-revenue services, the transporting, packing, and 

 marketing trades, and detailed statistics of tlie industry. Fifteen 

 plates showing fishing vessels, boats, appliances, and methods, and a 

 colored chart indicating the j>osition of the oyster beds, accompany the 

 report. 



The use of the proof sheets of this report was tendered the Maryland 

 Bureau of Industrial Statistics, and the entire paper was printed in the 

 report of that bureau for 1893. 



The fyke nets and fyke-net fisheries of the United States, with notes on the fyke 

 nets of other countries. (Bulletin, 1892, pp. 299-355, pis. lxxii-xci.) 



This article embodies the results of an original study of this group 

 of fishing apparatus which had been in progress for several years. 

 The fyke is one of the most generally used nets in the United States, 

 and is also found in nearly every other country having important com- 

 mercial fisheries. The paper defines the fyke net, gives the names by 

 which it is known, explains the principle of its action, classifies and 

 describes the different types, contains a geographical and statistical 

 review of the fyke-net fisheries of the United States, and concludes 

 with notes on the fyke net in other countries. In the fyke-net fisheries 

 of the coast and lake States, 2,300 persons are shown to have been 

 engaged, 25,700 nets used, and over 12,000,000 pounds of fish taken, the 

 value of the catch being over $300,000. Illustrations of 40 types of fyke 

 nets employed in the United States and other countries are given. 



Economic and natural-history notes on fishes of the northern coast of New 

 Jersey. (Bulletin, 1892, pp. 3*>5-380.) 



The commercial fisheries of the northern part of the Xew Jersey 

 coast are of great importance, and angling from the shore and from 

 boats is also very extensively carried on during the summer months. 



