UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



Stewart L. Udall, Secretary 

 Frank P. Briggs, Assistant Secretary for Fish, and Wildlife 



FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, Clarence F. Pautzke, Commissioner 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Donald L. McKeman, Director 



History of Oceanography in the Offshore 

 Waters of the Gulf of Maine 



by 

 JOHN B. COLTON, Jr. 



United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Special Scientific Report—Fisheries No. 496 



Washington, D.C. 

 December 1964 



