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Coast Survey and Revenue marine services, and 

 of the Navy Department. The co-operation of 

 many national services, the lighthouses, lightships, 

 etc., was also obtained, and large numbers of 

 fishermen assisted by collecting and forwarding 

 specimens. Later on, however, the Commission 

 became equipped in such a way as to call forth 

 the envy and admiration of fisheries workers 

 on this side of the Atlantic. The first vessel 

 acquired, the Fish-Hawk (450 tons), was built 

 specially in 1880 for work in connection with 

 fish-culture. Then a larger steamer of 1000 tons, 

 the Albatross, was built, and was put in com- 

 mission in 1883 for special sea-fisheries services, 

 and was staffed by naval officers detailed to the 

 technical parts of deep-sea research work. 1 Marine 

 laboratories were then established for scientific, 

 fish-cultural, and practical fisheries scientific 

 work, and the chief of these, the magnificent 

 institution at Woods Hole, Boston, is probably 

 unequalled among the marine stations of the 

 world. 



The artificial propagation of fresh-water and 

 sea fishes has been carried out by the American 

 Fish Commission to a much greater extent than 

 in any other country. This proposition was laid 

 down and acted upon very thoroughly : " It is 

 cheaper to make fish so plenty by artificial means, 



1 See Tanner, Bulletin (7.S. Fish Commission, vol. xvi. (for 1896), 

 1897, for a lengthy description of the Albatross and her equipment. 



