TRANSACTIONS 



of the 



American Fisheries Society 



%- To promote the cause of fish culture; to gather and 

 diffuse information hearing upon its practical success, 

 and upon all matters relating to the fisheries; to unite 

 and encourage all interests of fish culture and the fish- 

 eries; and to treat all questions of a scientific and eco- 

 nomic character regarding fish." 



VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 4 

 1914-1915 



Edited hy The Recording Secretary 



SEPTEMBER, 1915 



Published Quarterly by the Society 



NEW YORK, N. Y. 



