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a maturer work. For thirty years the report remained the 

 best treatise on American fisheries, and even to-day it 

 is unsurpassed in the excellence of treatment given to 

 the British colonial fisheries. 



The principal work upon our fisheries is the voluminous 

 compilation of seven large books prepared by George Brown 

 Goode and a staff of eighteen associates, from 1880 to 

 1887. Mr. Goode was at the time assistant secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. His associates were men of 

 recognized authority in the subjects assigned to them, 

 among the number being Prof. David S. Jordan, A. 

 Howard Clark, R. Edward Ear 11, Ernest Ingersoll, Richard 

 Rathbun, and Capt. J. W. Collins, a Gloucester fisherman 

 of wide experience in the fisheries. This work upon the 

 fisheries may be termed a compilation of material, part 

 of which was gathered from previous works upon different 

 phases of the fisheries, part was from articles already pub- 

 lished by the Fish Commission in its reports, and a part 

 from investigations made at the time of the authorization 

 of the work. 



The article on the mackerel fishery is made up essen- 

 tially of a report that had been published by the Com- 

 mission a short time previous. So with the oyster fishery. 

 The whale fishery adds little to what had already been 

 written upon the subject, as quotations are freely made 

 from the two principal sources in existence at that time. 

 In many parts of the work Sabine 's Report is quoted freely. 

 All this would imply that with some writers and on some 

 subjects little effort was used in getting back of material 

 that already existed. Other parts of the work represent 

 great and valuable additions to the historical material for 

 use in this subject. 



Especial mention should be made of the Geographical 

 Review in Section II. That volume was largely written 

 after extensive inquiries in the field. An index to this 



