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Results of first deepsea dredging cruise conducted by the Commissioner ofFisheries off the Coast Survey Steamer A. D. BACHE. The results of this firstdeep sea work by the forerunner of today's NMFS was published in: Report on theDredgings in the Region of St. George's Banks, in 1872 by S. I. Smith and O.Harger. Trans. of the Connecticut Academy, Vol. III., Part I, 1874. (Image credit: Archival Photography by Steve Nicklas)