PRELIMINARY REPORT ON AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FISHES 
AND FISHERIES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
By Davip Srarr Jorpan and Barron WARREN EVERMANN. 
We have the honor to present a preliminary report on the fish and 
fisheries of the Hawaiian Islands, based on investigations placed 
under our charge by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fish- 
eries. The investigations began in June, 1901, and were continued for 
about three months, during which time all the islands were visited. As 
assistants we had the services of the following: Mr. John N. Cobb, 
statistician, and Mr. E. L. Goldsborough, clerk and general assistant, 
detailed from the Fish Commission; Mr. C. B. Hudson and Mr. A. H. 
Baldwin, employed as artists; Mr. M. Sindo, of Stanford University, 
employed as preparator; and Dr. O. P. Jenkins, of Stanford Univer- 
sity, the chief authority on the fishes of Hawaii, who accompanied the 
expedition as a volunteer assistant. 
During the progress of these investigations many courtesies were 
shown us by the various Territorial officials and others, among whom 
we should mention specially Governor Dole and Acting Governor 
H. E. Cooper; Prof. W. D. Alexander,-of the coast survey; Dr. J. B. 
Pratt, of the board of health; Mr. E. R. Stackable, collector of cus- 
toms at Honolulu; Miss M. A. Burbank, librarian of the public library 
at Honolulu; Mr. F. G. Smith, of the Oahu Railway and Land Com- 
pany; the officials of the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company and 
the Wilder Steamship Company; Prof. W. T. Brigham and Mr. A. 
Seale, of the Bishop Museum; Mr. 8. M. Damon and Mr. Jos. S. 
Emerson, of Honolulu; Mr. W. 8. Wise, Mr. J. M. Hering, and Mr. 
Carl 8. Smith, of Hilo; Mr. J. Storan Moloney, Mr. E. H. Bailey, and 
Mr. William T. Robinson, of Maui, and Hon. F. W. Beckley, of Molokai. 
To all of these we wish to acknowledge our obligations and express our 
thanks. We are also under especial indebtedness to Mr. E. L. Berndt, 
inspector of the market at Honolulu. 
SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATIONS. 
So little being definitely known regarding the fishes and other 
aquatic resources of the Hawatian Islands, it was manifestly desirable 
to go into the whole question of the fisheries of those islands, and to 
make the investigations sufficiently comprehensive and exhaustive to 
enable the Commission to publish, in time, a full and reliable report 
upon the aquatic resources of the entire group. 
