season, will remain on the bar at the end of the season, and 
the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 17 
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Observations on the rate of flow of currents over the 
grounds at the examination stations have been largely dis 
continued this season because the time required for making 
: them has been needed for multiplying the number of exami 
nations of the oyster grounds and also because of the avail- 
ability of the extensive series of current observati 
in the Bay by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The ein 
of these observations can be supplemented in any particular 
locality when needed. 
Observations on the density of the water in each locality 
at the time of the survey and on the character of the bottom 
upon which the oyster bars are found, have been 
and samples of water have been regularly taken oe ae 
ee as as y ae ce the quantity and quality of the 
available oyster food, as this work in n 
eee of the survey. Sashes 
o attempt is made either in the text of this réport 
the published charts to give information with honed ts the 
limits or extent of the various kinds of bottom on which the 
oyster bars were found to extend but such information may 
be secured for any of the grounds covered by the survey by 
reference to the records of the surveys and examinations 
which are filed in the office of the Commission at A i 
In making the estimates of the quantity of Sactee ot 
oysters each natural bar may be expected to yield during the 
_ season following that of the survey, it is estimated that one- 
third of the marketable oysters available on the bottom one 
that one-half of the oysters which are less tha 
n two and - 
half inches in length (culls) one season, will have eben 0 
