Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England, Part 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 |
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alewife apparatus August average Bass blue-fish boats Bohus-län bottom capelan carp carried catch caught cent Chesapeake Bay Cloudy coast Commissioner considerable district dorsal drag-nets eggs female fins fiords Fish Commission fisheries fishermen flesh fresh furnished grams Grebbestad halibut harbor hatching Histiophorus hook Iceland important inches investigation Island July June kinds of fish Lake large numbers length male McCloud River Menhaden method millimeters milt nets Nordland North Northville November number of eggs number of fish observed obtained ovarium oyster period ponds portion Potomac River pounds present quantity Railroad Company regarding River Saint Salmo salar salt samples schools schooner sea fisheries season Sept shad shore smelts southern Spanish mackerel spawning species specimens spring spring-herring Striped bass Strömstad superintendent Sword-fish taken temperature Tetrapturus tion trawls trout United States Fish Vadsoe vessels weight whales whilst whitefish winter Xiphias young fish
Popular passages
Page 344 - Their general size is from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter ; but the Faussett collection possesses one of considerably larger dimensions, which was found in the grave of an Anglo-Saxon lady, on Kingston down. This magnificent ornament is no 11.
Page 46 - The resolution establishing the office of Commissioner of Fisheries required that the person to be appointed should be a civil officer of the government, of proved scientific and practical acquaintance with the fishes of the coast, to serve without additional salary. The choice was thus practically limited to a single man for whom, in fact, the office had been created.
Page 45 - To prosecute investigations on the subject (of the diminution of valuable fishes) with the view of ascertaining whether any and what diminution in the number of the food-fishes of the coast and the lakes of the United .States has taken place ; and, if so, to what causes the same is due ; and also whether any and what protective, prohibitory, or precautionary measures should be adopted in the premises, and to report upon the same to Congress.
Page 50 - Colombia was, by reason of her own delay, to be placed in the "more advantageous" position of claiming not merely the compensation to be paid by the United States for the privilege of completing the canal, but also the...
Page 46 - ... fishery products. Man being one of the chief destroyers of fish, his influence' upon their abundance must be studied. Fishery methods and apparatus must be examined and compared with those of other lands, that the use of those which threaten the destruction of useful fishes may be discouraged, and that those which are inefficient may be replaced by others more serviceable. Statistics of industry and trade must be secured for the use of Congress in making treaties or imposing tariffs, to show...
Page 50 - One of the important features of the work is the preparation of life histories of the useful marine animals of the country, and great quantities of material have been accumulated relating to almost every species. A portion of this has been published ; more or less complete biographical monographs having been printed on the bluefish, the scup, the menhaden, the salmon, and the whitefish, and others are nearly ready. Another monograph which may be referred to in this connection is that of Mr. Starbuck...
Page 46 - Its work is naturally divided into three sections: 1. The systematic investigation of the waters of the United States and the biological and physical problems which they present.
Page 47 - Congress to make a special appropriation for the purpose. This appropriation has since been renewed every year on a more bountiful scale, and the propagation of fish is at present by far the most extensive branch of the work of the Commission, both in respect to number of men employed and quantity of money expended. Although activity in this direction may be regarded in the light of applied rather than pure scientific work, it is particularly important to the biologist, since it affords opportunities...
Page 336 - Swordfish on one side, and an enormous whale on the other. It was in the middle of summer, and the weather being clear and the fish close to the vessel, we had a fine opportunity of witnessing the contest. As soon as the whale's back appeared above the water, the...
Page 293 - Color. — Above rich purplish blue, shading into whitish beneath the sides, and belly with a silvery luster. Fins bluish dark with silvery sheen, except dorsal. Top of the head rich purplish blue, the color extending upon the rostrum. Lower side of rostrum rich brownish purple. Eye deep blue.