REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LIX 



This permission was granted in a joint resolution, which passed the 

 Senate July 16, 1882.* 



The manuscript of the entire report is for the most part ready for the 

 printer, and several hundred drawings for the illustrations are finished. 

 Part I was placed in the hands of the printer in August, 1882, and 

 would have been published during the present year but for the absence 

 of Mr. Goode in England in the performance of other duties in connec- 

 tion with the Commission. The contents of these reports will approxi- 

 mately be as follows, though it is probable that other topics may be 

 added to the discussion before the work is completed : 



THE FOOD-FISHES AND FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Part I. — The Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals. 

 II. — The Fishing-Grouuds. 

 III. — The Fishing Towns, containing a geographical review of the Coast, 



River, and Lake Fisheries. 

 IV. — The Fishermen. 

 V. — The Apparatus of the Fisheries and Fishing Vessels and Boats. 

 VI. — The Fishery Industries, a discussion of methods and history. 

 VII. — The Preparation of Fishery Products. 

 VIII. — Fish-Culture and Fishery Legislation. 

 rX. — Statistics of Production, Exportation, and Importation. Summary 



Tables. 

 X. — The Whale Fishery ; a special monograph. 



XL — A Catalogue of the Useful and Injurious Aquatic Animals and Plants of 

 North America. » 



XII. — A List of Books and Papers relating to the Fisheries of the United 



States. 

 XIII. — A General Review of the Fisheries, with a statistical summary. 



The report prepared for the Superintendent of the Census, the manu- 

 script of which is now for the most part in his possession, is divided 

 into the following sections : 



A report upon the STATISTICS OF THE FISHERIES AND FISH TRADE OF THE UNITED 



STATES. 



Introduction (giving a comprehensive abstract of the matter contained in the quarto 



report referred to above). 

 Part I. — A Review of the Fisheries of the Atlantic Seaboard, with statistics of pro- 

 duction and manufactures. 

 II.— A Review of the Fisheries of the Pacific Coast, with statistics of produc- 

 tion and manufactures. 

 m. — A Review of the Fisheries of the Great Lakes, with statistics of production 



and manufactures. 

 IV. — A Review of the River Fisheries of the United States, (Prepared by C. 



W. Smiley.) 

 V. — ^A Review of the Consumption of Fish by Counties, with an estimate of the 

 extent and value of the inland fisheries. (Prepared by C. W. Smiley.) 



* For text of biU, see Report U. S. F. C, 1882, Part X, p. xlvii. 



