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vicinit}" of San Diego Bay, Cortez Banks, Santa Cataiina Island, and 

 Monterey Ba3^ The ship was continually engaged in collecting with 

 intermediate and surface apparatus, and in making extensive dredg- 

 ings and soundings about the regions under investigation. A line of 

 dredgings was run 200 miles vv^est from San Diego to the 2,000-fathom 

 curve, and off Monterey to the 1,000-fathom curve. The work was 

 brought to a close in June, and the vessel started for San Francisco, 

 where she arrived on the 15th of the month. 



Steamer Fish Jlcuoh. — At the beginning of the year the Fish Ilaivk 

 was undergoing repairs at Camden, N. J. These completed, she went 

 to Woods Hole, Mass., arriving July 19, from which time until Septem- 

 ber 11 she was occupied with duties in connection with the biological 

 laboratory of the Bureau, her work consisting chiefly of a S3^stematic 

 series of dredgings through Vineyard Sound between Nobska Point 

 and Gay Head. At the close of the laborator}^ season the vessel sailed 

 for Washington, going thence to Baltimore on October 8 for some 

 minor refitting. She was engaged for a short period in the spring, 

 beginning March 16, in the hatching of yellow perch at Chestertown, 

 on the Chester River, Maryland, and on April 29 began the usual shad 

 operations on the Delaware River, at Gloucester Cit}^, N. J. 



Schooner Grampus. — This vessel w^as engaged from the beginning 

 of the year until August 8 in collecting egg-bearing lobsters along the 

 Maine coast to supply the hatchery at Gloucester, Mass. On October 

 5, after being docked and painted, she began the collection of brood 

 codfish on the fishing grounds about Nantucket, No Man's Land, and 

 Block Island, continuing until about the middle of November, when 

 she was laid up for the winter and her crew detailed to assist in the 

 collection of cod eggs for the Massachusetts hatcheries. In April the 

 collection of lobsters for the present season was undertaken, and the 

 vessel was thus engaged at the end of the year. 



General. — Besides the usual minor repairs and renewals necessary 

 to keep the smaller craft of the Bureau in good condition, more exten- 

 sive alterations were made to some of the boats. The steamboat Cur- 

 lew.^ attached to the Iowa station, was made more available for night 

 work, which is often required, by the installation of electric light and 

 searchlight, and by the extension of the deck house to afford sleeping 

 quarters for the crew. A new boiler has been furnished the launch 

 Petrel., and her machinery and hull have been thoroughly overhauled. 

 New copper tanks have been put in the steamer Phalarope., and needed 

 alterations have been made in the arrangement of engine room and 

 cabin. Two new gasoline launches, 30 and 25 feet long, respectively, 

 have been purchased, one for use at North McGregor, Iowa, in the 

 collection of river fishes, and the other at Swanton, Vt., in extension 

 of the sturpfeon work. 



