REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. CXI II 
Miss Lillian M. Collins was appointed as clerk on April 8, 1889, and 
assigned to the duty of classifying, arranging, and indexing newspaper 
clippings. 
List of employes and tlieir salaries at the close of the year . — The fol- 
lowing is a list of the employes of the division and their salaries at the 
close of the year. This does not, however, include the names of those 
who have been temporarily detailed to service in the division from 
other divisions of the Commission : 
Name. 
Designation. 
Monthly 
compen- 
sation. 
1 J W Collins 
Assistant in charge of division. . 
$200 
115 
100 
AV A Wilcox 
Hugh Smith 
Clerk 
F, q Bryaii _ 
....do 
100 
j j Corridon - 
do 
100 
Q b Hudson 
Artist 
75 
M AI Snell .» 
Clerk 
75 
AV H Abbott 
do 
G5 
S L© K. Pritchard. 
do 
50 
Lillian M. Collins 
. . . .do 
50 
S. J. Martin 
Local statistical agent 
Statistical agent 
50 
Anal py Hall - 
45 
C. H. Steven son 
... .do 
30 
25 
| F F. Dimick 
Local statistical agent 
FIELD WORK, SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ETC. 
General considerations . — The work, as considered under this heading, 
is that which relates more particularly to the obtainment of informa- 
tion upon which reports can be based, and is distinct from the routine 
work and the preparation of reports, which will be mentioned later. 
The principal sources of information are: (1) Special investigations 
prosecuted by the statistical or field agents; (2) the statistical circular 
of the Treasury; (3) reports received from local statistical agents and 
fish bureaus; (4) general correspondence; (5) newspaper clippings. 
Special investigations . — The special investigations undertaken by the 
division during the year were as follows: 
An inquiry into the statistics, methods, and rela tions of the fisheries 
of the Middle and South Atlantic States, from New York to Florida, 
inclusive, all of which was completed before the close of the year with 
the exception of New York. 
A similar inquiry concerning the fisheries of the States bordering on 
the Gulf of Mexico was undertaken but was not finished. A canvass 
was made, however, of the coast from Key West to Scranton, Miss. 
A comprehensive investigation of the fisheries of the west coast was 
begun in November, 1888, and at the close of the fiscal year avus so well 
advanced as to give' reason to anticipate its completion at a compara- 
tively early date. This included a canvass of the coast and river fish- 
eries from San Diego to Puget Sound. It is expected that this will be 
supplemented, so far as the commercial fisheries are concerned, by the 
work done by J)r. Bean and assistants in Alaska in connection Avitli 
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