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3470 1 (1897)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32917 and id is 1 raw text is: 54TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 2d Session. No. 100. THE FISH AND FISHERIES OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF FLORIDA. JANUAnY 28, 1897.-Referred to the Committee on Fisheries and ordered to be 0 printed. * The VICE-PRESIDENT presented the following LETTER FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES, TRANSMITTING, IN RESPONSE TO SENATE RESOLUTION OF FEBRUARY 15, 1895, A REPORT ON THE FISH AND FISHERIES OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF FLORIDA. UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES, Washington, D. 0., January 28, 1897. Sin: I have the honor to transmit the accompanying report on the fish and fisheries of the coastal waters of Florida, in accordance with the following Senate resolution of February 15, 1895: Besolved, That the Commissioner of Fisheries is hereby directed to make inquiry in reference to the extent, methods, and present condition of the coast fisheries of Florida-more particularly the sponge and oyster fisheries-and to report as to the desirability of establishing a station for investigation, experiment, and fish-culture at some suitable point on the coast. Investigations pursuant to the resolution of the Senate were begun in 1895 under the direction of the late Commissioner, but it was not feasible to complete the inquiries until the present year, when a party consisting of Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Prof. Barton W. Evermann, Mr. John N. Cobb, and Dr. W. C. Kendall, of this Commission, visited the southeastern and western coasts of the State, made observations, and collected information on which this report is in part based. Previous investigations had been conducted on the east coast of Florida in the years 1895 and 1896, which put the Commission in possession of data regarding the extent and condition of the fisheries of that region. Reference is made to the following recent reports on the Florida fish- eries relating to the subject under consideration: Notes on Biscayne Bay, with reference to its adaptability as the site of a marine hatching and experiment station, which appears in the report of this Commis- sion for 1895, and The fisheries of Indian River, Florida, * being a * Printed as S. Doc. 46, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session. S. Doc. 4-1

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