Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1913 The Bureau of Fisheries maintains 34 main and 92 auxiliary fish hatcheries and culture stations, and exercises supervision over the salmon fisheries of Alaska and over the seal herd on the Pribilof Islands, in the Bering Sea. The Bureau of Standards has laboratories in Washington and Pittsburgh. The Coast and Geodetic Survey maintains magnetic observatories at Cheltenham, Md.; Tucson, Ariz.; Vieques, P. R.; Sitka, Alaska, and Honolulu, Hawaii, and takes tidal observations at regular stations in Maine, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, Texas California, Washington, and Alaska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.