Woods Hole
a village in Barnstable co., Mass.; on Buzzards Bay; and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, 72 miles S. E. of Boston. It is the seat of one of the most important stations of the United States Fisheries Commission, where lobsters, sea bass, cod, and other food fishes are propagated. Besides an extensive fish hatchery, the station is equipped with an excellent marine biological laboratory, in which a corps of efficient teachers annually give instruction to a large number of students. Woods Hole has also long been celebrated as a harbor of refuge for shipping.