Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ended (1911) (14596855540)

Identifier: reportofcommissi1911unit (find matches)
Title: Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ended ..
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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ar symbols. Hard bottom is shown by solid black circles, ooze by circles with ahorizontal diameter, and intermediate consistencies by intermediate symbols. Themore open the circle, the softer is the bottom which it represents. Not all stations atwhich the bottom was tested are shown, the purpose being to indicate the generalcharacter and the transitions from one to the other. Depths are expressed in feet and refer to mean low water. The triangulation stations of the United States Coast and Geodetic Sum^ey, whichwere determined with great acciu-acy and are permanently marked with concretemonuments, are shown by triangles with an included circle. The subsidiary triangulation stations of the Bureau of Fisheries, less accuratelydetermined and marked by concrete monuments with an iron pipe in the center, areshown by means of circles. The names of the stations are those used by the hydro-graphic party and are usually abbreviations of the full name used by the Coast andGeodetic Survey. 61 I\
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CONDITION AND EXTENT OF THE NATURAL OYSTER BEDS AND BARREN BOTTOMS OF MISSISSIPPI EAST OF BILOXI By H. F. MOOMAssistant in Charge of Scientilic Inquiry Siueau of Fisbeties Documeat No. 774 CONTENTS, Introduction 5 Methods of the survey 6 Description of the natural beds: Scranton Reef 11 Patches near Scranton Reef 13 West Pascagoula Reef 14 Deer Island, East Point bed 15 Small patches, Biloxi Bay 17 Biloxi Bay, below railroad bridge 18 Back Bay, east bed 19 Back Bay, west bed 21 The beds in summary 22 Barren bottoms 27 General physical and biological conditiDus: Tides and currents 30 Salinity of water 30 Oyster food 32 Oyster enemies ^^ Spawning ^^ Oyster culture ^^ Summary, conclusions and recommendations 39 3 CONDITION AND EXTENT OF THE NATURAL OYSTER BEDS ANDBARREN BOTTOMS OF MISSISSIPPI EAST OF BILOXI. By H. F. Moore,Assistant in Charge of Scientific Inquiry. INTRODUCTION. Tins investigation was made at the request of Hon. E. J. Noel,Governor of Alississippi, in connection with a s