[3] PLAN OF INQUIRY FOR FISHERY CENSUS. 5 
prehensive as possible; and it is the intention that the report shall 
take into consideration every subject which is connected with the his- 
tory, prosecution, and maintenance of the fisheries. 
ORGANIZATION. 
The plan of organization provides for the employment of the following 
assistants. 
Superintendent of the Investigation. 
Disbursing Agent. 
Assistant canvassing Gulf Coast. } 
«“ «“ Atlantic Coast. | 
oe - Great Lakes. | Fieta assistants. 
ee - Pacific Coast. | 
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Assistant in charge of Correspondence. } 
es Be ‘* Natural History work. | 
fe “4 % Computation. \ Office assistants. 
Copyist. 
Stenographic clerk. 
Also, the employment of experts to make reports on special subjects 
of local extent, as, for instance, the trade statistics of certain large cities 
or individual branches of the fishery. 
INSTRUCTIONS. 
A.—OF THE FIELD ASSISTANT. 
1. To visit every settlement in the district assigned to him. 
2. To consider each general heading in the accompanying schedule 
with reference to that particular settlement. 
3. To eliminate those subjects which cannot have reference to the set- 
tlement under consideration. 
4, To obtain every possible item of information relating to those 
branches of fishery or fishery manufactures there prosecuted in the 
present or past. Hints as to the best means of obtaining information 
on these topies are given below. 
5. To make the investigation complete for each town or community, 
and to forward the full notes to headquarters as soon as convenient; 
the notes should be very full, and should be written up in the field. 
Partial memoranda, taken with a view to future elaboration, are unsat- 
isfactory and generally unreliable. The advantage of frequent commu- 
nication with headquarters is too evident to require recommendation. 
6. To keep a journal of daily work, giving the incidents of the trip, 
