. Summary of the fishery investigations conducted in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea from July 1, 1888 to July 1,1892 by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross [microform]. Hydrography; Fisheries; Fisheries; Hydrographie; Pêche commerciale; Pêche commerciale. 150 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. occasional detentions in port, moreover, afforded excellent opportunities for studying the inshore flsbery resources and the fishery methods of the region, respecting both of which'subjects important information was obtained. The five banks whose positions were indicated by ol
. Summary of the fishery investigations conducted in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea from July 1, 1888 to July 1,1892 by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross [microform]. Hydrography; Fisheries; Fisheries; Hydrographie; Pêche commerciale; Pêche commerciale. 150 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. occasional detentions in port, moreover, afforded excellent opportunities for studying the inshore flsbery resources and the fishery methods of the region, respecting both of which'subjects important information was obtained. The five banks whose positions were indicated by older surveys, namely, David son, Sannak, Shumagin, Albatross, and Portlock Banks, were more thoroughly exam- ined than were the intervening areas, some of which, however, may, upon further examination, prove to contain fishing-banks of equal value, and not inferior in size to at least the smaller of those mentioned. Good fishing was obtained at nearly all localities where trials were made with hand lines, whether upon defined banks orupon the more level grounds between them, and it is natural to infer that the entire sub- merged plateau from off Unalaska Island to Fairweather ground is one immense fishing-ground, limited upon the outer side only by the abrupt slope, which may be said to begin about the 100-fathom curve. Equally good fishing can not be expected to exist in all parts of this area, some places being more favorable for the feeding and spawning of the cod and halibut than others, and as a rule the larger fish have to be sought for in deeper waters. This important tract can best be compared with the suc- cession of well-known banks which skirt the southern border of the British Provinces on the eastern coast of North America from the Gulf of Maine to beyond Newfound- laud, but its total area is. much less. If considered as a single and continuous bank, however, it has more than twice the area of the fishing-grounds of Bering Sea, previ- ously described in this paper
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