The Bureau of Fisheries 



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A Salmon Ascending the Cascades of L,itnik Stream. 



opposite page) 



(See illustration on 



since remained. On her long voyage 

 round the Horn many sounding and 

 dredging stations were made and valua- 

 ble collections obtained. 



NOTED ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE 

 ALBATROSS 



During the sixteen years that the Al- 

 batross has been in the Pacific she has 

 been as actively engaged in important 

 work as the available funds would per- 

 mit. Among the most notable investi- 

 gations may be mentioned the develop- 

 ment of important fishing grounds in the 

 Gulf of California, on the coast of Cali- 

 fornia off San Diego, Santa Barbara, and 



San Francisco, also off the Straits of 

 Fuca and Vancouver Island; the discov- 

 ery and development of rich cod and 

 halibut grounds in the northern Pacific 

 and Bering Sea; the study of the salmon 

 fisheries of Alaska, and the fishes and 

 other aquatic resources of the Hawaiian 

 Islands. From 1S91 to 1897 ^ ie was 

 engaged for a portion of each year in 

 investigations in connection with the 

 various fur seal commissions. In the 

 winter of 1891 and '92 she made, under 

 the direction of the Secretary of the 

 Navy, a survey for a cable from San 

 Francisco to Honolulu. During the 

 early months of 1S91 and again in 1899 



