United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries

Organization

Eras: Irish era
Concepts: fishingheritage

Summary

The United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries is the federal agency named in held 1898 and 1899 annual reports on Great Lakes lake-trout egg collection. Those reports record first a decision not to send collection effort to Beaver Island and then particular planning attention to its grounds, while distinguishing those facts from a documented island collection.

Scope and limits

This is an agency anchor for the one documented 1898 fisheries episode. The held report does not establish a permanent local office, an island hatchery, ownership of fishery infrastructure, or a complete history of federal fisheries management in the archipelago.

The dated record

3 dated events · 1898–1900These years on the timeline →

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United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries — p. 1 — Page 1 of 654U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, *Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1898*, Part XXIV (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), p. LXXIX.Open the page image · Download this page

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Sources

U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, *Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1898*, Part XXIV (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), p. LXXIX.
Described in this archive: U.S. Fish Commission report for the year ending 30 June 1898.
The title page identifies the federal commission and Commissioner George M. Bowers. The cited page records its 1898 Lake Michigan lake-trout egg-collection work. This record does not assert a full agency history, statutory authority, staffing list, or uninterrupted relationship to Beaver Island.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/united-states-commission-of-fish-and-fisheries/, accessed [date], citing U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, *Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1898*, Part XXIV (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), p. LXXIX..

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