Learn More about the History of Conservation in Maryland

Fisheries

Websites

• History of the Trout Hatcheries in Maryland. From the DNR website.
• Functions of the Fisheries Service. From the Maryland State Archives Maryland Manual.

Annual Reports (in chronological order)

• Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of Maryland. (Published 1876-1915). View the DNR Library holdings.  Additional holdings available at the Maryland State Law Library.  Search the Maryland State Law Library catalog.
• First Report of the Shell Fish Commission of Maryland (1907). Full text available on Google Books.
• Report. Maryland Shell Fish Commission. (Published 1907-1916). Available at Maryland State Law Library. Search the Maryland State Law Library catalog.
• Annual report of State Game Warden and ... annual report of Maryland State Game and Inland Fish Commission. (Published 1939-1969) Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library catalog record.
• Maryland Commercial Fish Hatchery Operations. (Published 1940-1953).  View the DNR Library holdings.
• Annual report of the Department of Tidewater Fisheries of the state of Maryland. 1941 available at the University of Maryland library. Search the University of Maryland library catalog.

Books

• Department of Tidewater Fisheries : what it is, what it does : report of the Department of Tidewater Fisheries with statements about its organization and activities from the reorganization July 1, 1959, to December 1, 1960. Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library catalog record
• Powell, Albert M. (1967). Historical information of Maryland Commission of Fisheries with some notes on game. Maryland: By author. Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library catalog record.

Periodicals

• Commercial Fisheries News. (Published 1968-1980). Annapolis, MD: Fish & Wildlife Administration of Maryland. Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library holdings information.
• Maryland Fish and Wildlife News. (Published 1970-1977). Annapolis, MD: Department of Natural Resources. Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library holdings information.
• Maryland Tidewater News. (Published 1944 - 1959). Solomons, MD: Maryland Board of Natural Resources, Dept. of Research and Education. Available at Maryland State Law Library. Search the Maryland State Law Library catalog.
  Tidewater Fisheries News. (Published 1980-1983). Annapolis, MD: Department of Natural Resources. Available at the DNR Library. View the DNR Library holdings information.