20 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



San Francisco disaster, in April, the Albatross^ together with naval 

 vessels there, performed efficient service in assisting the suflerers. 



The work of the steamer Fish Hawk consisted of a continuation of 

 a biological survey of Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound during the 

 summer of 1905 and the customary shad-hatching work on the Dela- 

 ware River in the spring of 1906. At the close of the hatching season 

 in that stream the vessel was sent to Maine to test the feasibility of 

 similar operations on the Kennebec and other northern rivers. This 

 work was begun June 7. 



The schooner Grampus was engaged as usual in the summer col- 

 lecting lobster eggs along the Maine coast, but this work was inter- 

 rupted by the detail of the vessel to carr}^ representatives of the 

 Bureau to Newfoundland upon duty connected with fishery questions 

 in those waters. The demands upon the vessel in this cruise empha- 

 sized the necessity for thorough overhauling and the installation of 

 auxiliary power if efficient service is to be obtained. During the 

 winter months the crew were employed in fish-cultural work, and on 

 April 4 the schooner again went into commission for the lobster 

 work of the season of 1906. 



PUBLICATIONS AND LIBRARY. 



The President's order of January 20, 1906, and the legislation of the 

 last Cong^-ess regarding the printing and binding of departmental 

 publications etiected the following changes in the plan of issue of the 

 reports and special papers of the Bureau of Fisheries: 



The volume known as the Annual Report of the Bureau has been 

 discontinued, and will henceforth be represented by a brief report of 

 the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secret ar}^ of Commerce and 

 Labor. The papers formerh^ published as appendixes to the Commis- 

 sioner's report, with it constituting the annual report volume, are 

 now issued as independent pamphlets, designated "Bureau of Fisher- 

 ies Document," with a number carried in the regular series already 

 maintained for the distribution of pamphlets. 



The Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, so far as its distribution h^ 

 the Bureau is concerned, is now issued in bound form in a very limited 

 edition intended primaril}^ for the Bureau's offices and stations, for the 

 specialists who are its correspondents and collaborators, for foreign 

 fishery departments and authorities, for a few public institutions, and 

 for exchange for technical periodicals at home and abroad. For all 

 other purposes of the Bureau the miscellaneous papers composing the 

 volume are issued as separate pamphlets, in varying editions measured 

 b}^ the demand for the subject-matter. 



The increased number of separates available for distribution under 

 the altered arrangement makes possible a more judicious and eco- 



