20 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
necessity for and the results of fish-cultural operations of the gov- 
ernment and states, and is indispensable in furnishing a basis for 
legislation. 
The results of the inquiries in different regions with reference to 
the extent, condition, and methods of their economic fisheries, and of 
the investigation of special branches of the fishing industry to which 
attention has been given during the year are shown in the appended 
report of the assistant in charge. General canvasses have been con- 
ducted in the New England, South Atlantic and Gulf States, and the 
Hawaiian Islands, and special inquiries have been made into the con- 
dition of the vessel fisheries centering at Boston and Gloucester, Mass. ; 
the fisheries of the interior waters of Florida; interior lakes and 
streams of New York and Vermont; the Pacific cod and halibut fish- 
eries, and the whale fishery centering at San Francisco. There have 
also been very complete canvasses of the statistics and methods of the 
salmon industry of Washington, Oregon, California, and Alaska in 
conjunction with the work of the special salmon commission. 
MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER MATTERS. 
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL. 
Inthe death of Mr. Cloudsley Rutter, which occurred November 28, 
1903, the Bureau has lost the services of a very conscientious and efli- 
cient assistant. Mr. Rutter became connected with the Bureau in 
1897 as scientific assistant, and at the time of his death was naturalist 
of the steamer A/batross. He took anactive part in biological investi- 
gations on the Pacific coast, and his work on the salmon added much 
to the knowledge of the habits of those fishes. Mr. Rutter was suc- 
ceeded by Mr. F. M. Chamberlain, general assistant on the A/batross. 
The Bureau has lost another valued employee, Capt. S. J. Martin, 
whose death occurred June 10, 1904. Since 1888 he had rendered 
faithful service at his home in Gloucester, Mass., in collecting statistics 
of the important fisheries centering there. 
Mr. William Barnum, an employee of the Bureau since 1891, and 
for many years editor of the Bureau’s publications, resigned February 
12, 1904, to take the position of chief clerk of the Carnegie Institution. 
At the request of the minister of the Argentine Republic, trans- 
mitted through the Department of State, Mr. John W. Titcomb, 
assistant in charge of fish-culture, was granted leave of absence without 
pay for nine months beginning September 1, 1903, in order to make 
arrangements to inaugurate fish-cultural work on the part of the 
government of that country. 
Mr. E. A. Tulian, for a long time superintendent of the hatchery at 
Leadville, Colo., resigned in order to take fish eggs to Argentina and 
