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CONTENTS.. 



L— KEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 



A.— GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



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I. Iktboductory kbmarks xvii 



Scope of the eleventh report xvii 



Becent expansion of operations xvii 



Ednoational services of the Commission xvii 



Demand for specimens collected xviii 



Noteworthy features of the year xviii 



(1) Completion of the Albatross xviii 



(2) Its use in studying schools of ocean fishes xviii 



(3) Use of the electric light xviii 



(4) A call from Great Britain for the Albatross xviii 



(5) Work of the Albatross in Caribbean Sea xviii 



(6) The hatching of Spanish mackerel xviii 



(7) Stranding of the Fish Hawk xviii 



(8) The acquisition of land at Wood's Holl xviii 



(9) Prosecution of work on the pier and breakwater at Wood's Holl xviii 



(10) The great International Fisheries Exhibition at London xviii 



(11) Examination of the ocean fisheries by a Senate committee xviii 



(12) Securing specimens of cetaceans, &c., through the Life-Saving Service xviii 



(13) Liberal co-operation of the railroads xviii 



(14) Adoption of a fishway for Great Falls xix 



(15) Laying out oyster poods at Saint Jerome xix 



(16) Artificial propagation of oysters at Stockton xix 



(17) Improvement* at Havre de Grace Station xix 



(18) Opening the Cold Spring Harbor Station xix 



(19) Survey of the Columbia River '. xix 



(20) Interruption of salmon work on the McCloud River xix 



(21) Increased production of whitefish At the Great Lakes xix 



• (22) Introduction of whitefish at Mount Desert, Me xix 



(23) Action looking towards the protection of the Great Lakes fisheries xix 



(24) Shad-hatching at Fort Washington xix 



(25) Transferring shad eggs on trays xix 



(26) Acclimation of shad in the Sacramento River xix 



(27) Increase in the inshore cod-fisheries by the use of gill-nets xix 



(28) Reappearance of young cod hatched by the Commission xix 



(20) Efforts to hatch cod eggs from Fulton Market xix 



(30) A large distribution of German carp xix 



(31) Importation of blue carp xx 



(32) Discoveries in regard to the black cod as a food-flsh xx 



(33) Hatching rockfish xx 



Work yet to b« accomplished by the Commission xx 



(1) Completing the knowledge of the habits of the useful fishes and other aqaatio 



animals and their proper identification, the collecting of specimens oil a 



large scale, and their distribution to colleges and academies xx 



(2) The improvement of the methods of capture xx 



Great aid rendered in the past by the introduction of the cod gill-net xx 



Treatment of nets to prevent their rotting xx 



(3) Improvement in fishing vessels xx 



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