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Title: Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: United States Comission of Fish and Fisheries
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rather than biological conditions. Thereis an abundant food supply, the water teeming with brine shrimps andinsect larva?. The available fish food exceeds in quantity that usuallyfound in the sea, its abundance being largely due, no doubt, to thefact that there are no fish to consume it. The lake is also exceedinglyrich in minute plants, especially diatoms which constitute the chieffood of the oyster, but from a practical point of view this fact has novalue when we are confronted by the absolutely prohibitive physicalconditions which the present examination disclosed. There is much greater probability of attaining valuable results byintroducing cat-fish into the fresh sloughs near the mouths of the riversthan by attempting the introduction of marine species into the lake. J± EEVIEW OF THE FISHERIES IN THE CONTIGUOUS WATERS OF THE STATE OFWASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA. BY RICHARD RATHBUN,Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 251 Report U. S. F. C. 1899. iT.. face page 253.)
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A REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES IN THE CONTIGUOUS WATERSOF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA. By Richard Rathbun,Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. INTRODUCTION. From 1893 to 1896 the fisheries in the boundary waters betweenCanada and the United States were made the subject of inquiry byan international commission, composed of Dr. William Wakeham, ofOttawa, as the rex:>resentative of Great Britain, and the writer actingon behalf of this country. The interesting region at the western ter-minus of the boundary line, where the fishing industry, though stillcomparatively new, has already attained a marvelous development, wasvisited in the summer of 1895, and several weeks were spent in exam-ining its principal features. The results of this investigation, so far asthey were directly pertinent to the objects of the commission, wereembodied in its report submitted to the two respective governmentson December 31, 189G.* Since then the writer has again gone over thevoluminou

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