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A New Method For The Quantitative Determination Of Plankton Hauls, Henry B. Ward
A New Method For The Quantitative Determination Of Plankton Hauls, Henry B. Ward
Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska
Only two methods of estimating the quantity of plankton obtained in a haul of the vertical net are known to me. These two may be called the volumetric and the gravimetric. Both have been used by observers in various parts of the world, but so far as I know have never been comparatively tested in order to ascertain the relative value of results obtained by the two. The experience of the past year has shown some disadvantages in the first method, while the second has certain evident objections which rendered its employment in this case out of the question. In …
The Food Supply Of The Fish In The Great Lakes, Henry B. Ward
The Food Supply Of The Fish In The Great Lakes, Henry B. Ward
Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska
When the early settlers made their homes along the shores of the Great Lakes, the waters of these inland seas teemed with fish. A cheap and apparently inexhaustible supply of food lay within easy reach, and they drew from it unstinted, nor was it strange that, with the increasing population and ever-widening means of communication, delicacies so tempting as the whitefish and lake trout were eagerly sought after in the markets of the neighboring cities, and that the ingenuity of generations of fishing folk was taxed to invent means of securing the fish-until finally, in the face of a growing …