Nature and science on the Pacific coast : a guide-book for scientific travelers in the West . ilding, and a wharf, pumping plant and viviersare in process of construction. The Station is openthroughout the year and climatic conditions areexceedingly favorable for biological investigationsat all seasons. Collecting Grounds.—The productive salmon,halibut and herring fisheries of Alaska and theNorthwest, and the pelagic fisheries of the albacore(tuna) and other pelagic fishes off southern Cali-fornia are commercial indices of the fertilitj^ ofthe sea on the Pacific Coast. The biological stationsa
Nature and science on the Pacific coast : a guide-book for scientific travelers in the West . ilding, and a wharf, pumping plant and viviersare in process of construction. The Station is openthroughout the year and climatic conditions areexceedingly favorable for biological investigationsat all seasons. Collecting Grounds.—The productive salmon,halibut and herring fisheries of Alaska and theNorthwest, and the pelagic fisheries of the albacore(tuna) and other pelagic fishes off southern Cali-fornia are commercial indices of the fertilitj^ ofthe sea on the Pacific Coast. The biological stationsat Nanaimo and Friday Harbor are convenient cen-ters for the collection of marine life in the shelteredwaters of the Northwest, which are famous forthe quantity of life they produce. The planktonis especially rich in larval stages and often inNoctiluca, and locally abounds in brackish waterforms such as rotifers and Evadne. The littoraland tide-pool fauna is rich in hydroids, bryozoans,echinoderms, molluscs, and annelids often of ex-traordinary size, submarine fields of eel-grass and 126. _,3. 5* iTi w. Do ,^ PI _ o ^- o W^ !
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