Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1907 and Special Papers In an effort to inaugurate shad catching in St. Johns River, Florida, the steamer F ish Hawk was sent to that locality, but only negative results were obtained, owing to inability to secure ripe fish. 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.