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Fisheries in oflBicial publications constitute without a doubt the 

 finest collection of authoritative papers on fishery problems in the 

 world. To give a few instances only ; the best account of the 

 beam-trawl fishery of Great Britain (at the time it was written) 

 of the Marine Biological Stations of Europe, of carp culture, of 

 general fish-hatching and rearing, are to be found in these volumes, 

 the general subject matter of which is co-extensive with the 

 scope of the operations of the Bureau — it is biological, fish-cultural 

 and commercial, treated from standpoints both technical and 

 economic. 



The Manual of Fish-culture, first issued in 1897 and revised in 

 1900, is unquestionably the standard work on the subject. The 

 seven volumes devoted to the Fisheries and Fishing Industries of 

 the United States, by Commissioner Goode and his colleagues — 

 Clark, Collins, Earll, Elliott, McDonald and True — ^though published 

 nearly thirty years ago, still remains a standard work of reference.^ 

 Of special interest and value to students of the sea fisheries are the 

 numerous publications by Evermann, either alone or in colla- 

 boration, on the fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, of Porto Rico, oi 

 the interior and coastal waters of America ; the reports of Benedict, 

 Rathbun and others on crustacean resources ; the papers of Herrick 

 on the American lobster ; of Kunz on pearls ; of Moore on oysters 

 and oyster culture ; of Parker and Herrick on the special senses in 

 fish ; and numerous other papers. ^ In addition to the above the 

 publications treat of the physical conditions in lakes and streams, 

 the methods used in deep-sea investigation, and all forms of minute 

 animal and plant life in thejr relation to fish extending into the 

 fields of oceanography, hydrography, geology and chemistry as 

 well as biology. The Bureau is thus responsible for a literature 

 which no bibliography devoted to the sea fisheries could possibly 

 omit, having an educational value of the highest degree. 



For the first ten years of the Bureau's existence its publications 

 were comprised in a series of annual octavo volumes, known as the 

 Commissioner's Report. In 1881 another series was begun, likewise 

 an annual publication, and called Bulletin of the United States Fish 

 Commission. The two series lasted until 1905, when new legislation 

 brought about a change. The bulletin remains as before, an annual 

 report. The Commissioner's Report is no longer a bound volume 

 containing a detailed account of the year's work, with special reports 

 appended, but is reduced to a brief administrative statement of 



1 See also, A History of the New England Fisheries, by R. McFarland, University 

 of Pennsylvania. Series in Political Economy and Public Law. New York, 1911. 



« Students of marine faunae of interest from a fishery standpoint, should also 

 refer to the publications of the Smithsonian Institution, e.g. Goode and Bean's 

 Oceanic Ichthyology, True's Whalebone Whales 0} the North Atlantic, and others. 



