18 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
vicinity of San Diego Bay, Cortez Banks, Santa Catalina Island, and 
Monterey Bay. The ship was continually engaged in collecting with’ 
intermediate and surface apparatus, and in making extensive dredg- 
ings and soundings about the regions under investigation. A line of 
dredgings was run 200 miles west from San Diego to the 2,000-fathom 
curve, and off Monterey to the 1,000-fathom curve. The work was 
brought to a close in June, and the vessel started for San Francisco, 
where she arrived on the 15th of the month. 
Steamer ish Hawh.—At the beginning of the year the 7%sh Hawh 
was undergoing repairs at Camden, N. J. These completed, she went 
to Woods Hole, Mass., arriving July 19, from which time until Septem- 
ber 11 she was occupied with duties in connection with the biological 
laboratory of the Bureau, her work consisting chiefly of a systematic 
series of dredgings through Vineyard Sound between Nobska Point 
and Gay’Head. At the close of the laboratory season the vessel sailed 
for Washington, going thence to Baltimore on October 8 for some 
minor refitting. She was engaged for a short period in the spring, 
beginning March 16, in the hatching of yellow perch at Chestertown, 
on the Chester River, Maryland, and on April 29 began the usual shad 
operations on the Delaware River, at Gloucester City, N. J. 
Schooner Grampus.—This vessel was engaged from the beginning 
of the year until August 8 in collecting egg-bearing lobsters along the 
Maine coast to supply the hatchery at Gloucester, Mass. On October 
5, after being docked and painted, she began the collection of brood 
codfish on the fishing grounds about Nantucket, No Man’s Land, and 
Block Island, continuing until about the middle of November, when 
she was laid up for the winter and her crew detailed to assist in the 
collection of cod eggs for the Massachusetts hatcheries. In April the 
collection of lobsters for the present season was undertaken, and the 
vessel was thus engaged at the end of the year. 
General.—Besides the usual minor repairs and renewals necessary 
to keep the smaller craft of the Bureau in good condition, more exten- 
sive alterations were made to some of the boats. The steamboat Cur- 
lew, attached to the Iowa station, was made more available for night 
work, which is often required, by the installation of electric light and 
searchlight, and by the extension of the deck house to afford sleeping 
quarters for the crew. A new boiler has been furnished the launch 
Petrel, and her machinery and hull have been thoroughly overhauled. 
- New copper tanks have been put in the steamer halarope, and needed 
alterations have been made in the arrangement of engine room and 
cabin. ‘Two new gasoline launches, 30 and 25 feet long, respectively, 
have been purchased, one for use at North McGregor, Iowa, in the 
collection of river fishes, and the other at Swanton, Vt., in extension 
of the sturgeon work. 
