Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England, Մաս 5

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1879

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The imperfect knowledge regarding this species 2
2
Means employed in gathering information 3
3
Responses to the circular See also Appendices B and N 4
4
Published accounts of the species See also Appendixes C and D 4
5
Prejudices and superstitions 6
6
The geographical distribution of popular names 7
7
Discrepancies in these names 9
9
The name of menbaden claimed to be the preferable one 10
10
Hardhead and bonyfish 12
12
Alewife and oldwife 13
13
Fatback and yellowtail 14
14
Zoological names 15
15
Mitchills description of Clupea menhaden See also Appendix E 16
16
Belknaps Clupea dura 17
17
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 18
18
A DESCRIPTION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF BREVOORTIA WITH ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL NOTES 19
19
Brevoortia patronus Goode 26
26
Brevoortia pectinata Jenyns Gill 30
30
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND THE MOVEMENTS OF THE SCHOOLS
35
Illustrations
37
SECTION E ABUNDANCE OF THE MENHADEN COMPARATIVE AND ABSOLUTE
78
Facts connected with distribution of marine fishes
81
SECTION H THE ENEMIES AND FATALITIES OF THE MENHADEN
101
Inferences to be drawn from the presence of these parasites
103
Other parasites
104
The destructiveness of sharks
105
Ravages of the bluefish and the bonito
106
The menhaden driven upon the shores
107
Captain Spindels account of the ravages of the bluefish
108
An estimate of the number of menhaden annually consumed by predaceous fish
109
Man and the fisheries
110
Comments upon these allegations
111
Professor Hinds unwarranted statements
112
THE MENHADEN FISHERIES
113
Difficulty experienced in obtaining statistics
114
Fisheries in Maine
115
Fisheries in Connecticut
116
Fisheries in Virginia and North Carolina
117
16
118
The seineboats
120
The sailingvessels See also Appendix I
122
The steamers
123
The best time of day for using the purseseine
124
Fishing on the coast of Massachusetts
125
Fishing on the coast of Maine
126
Gillnet fishing on the coast of Maine
128
Weir fishing for menhaden
129
Fishing for fatbacks in North Carolina
131
The menhaden fishery and land industries
132
Laws regulating the menhaden fishery of Massachusetts
133
SUPERSECTION ECONOMICAL VALUE AND APPLICATIONS OF THE MENHADEN
135
Menhaden salted See also Appendix G
136
Foodpreparations derived from the menhaden
137
The qualities of American sardines
138
Mr Goodales Extract of FishMethods of preparation and uses
139
Possible yield of Extract of Fish
140
THE MENHADEN AS A BAITFISH
141
Comparative value of menhaden and other bait
142
Comparative value of herring and menhaden for tollbait
143
The testimony of Canadian officers as to the value of menhaden bait
146
Testimony before the Halifax Commission regarding the greater value of menhaden bait
147
The use of menhaden bait in coast fisheries
148
Estimate of the annual consumption of menhaden bait
149
Use of menhaden bait by the Georges Bank fleet
150
Use of menhaden bait by the Connecticut smacks
151
The Connecticut method of icing bait
152
Conflicts between baitfishermen and manufacturers of oil
155
Present aspects of the conflict in Maine
156
Claims of Her Majestys government
157
Reply of the agent of the United States
158
Reply in behalf of Her Britannic Majestys government
159
Other references to the menhaden in the testimony and affidavits
160
The argument of Mr Dana
161
The claims of Connecticut and New York
162
The inception of the oil business in Maine
164
The location of the oilfactories See also Appendix H
165
Factories in Rhode Island
166
Factories in New York
167
Factories in New Jersey
168
Factories on the Southern coast
169
A description of processes employed in manufacture
170
The factory of George W Miles Co
171
The factory of Joseph Church Co
172
The factory at Napeague N Y
173
The model of the factory of Joseph Church Co
174
Organization of the fishing gangs
176
Mr Goodales improved method for extracting the oil
177
Proposed chemical method
178
Prices proportionate to amount of oil to be obtained from the fish
180
Oilyield of southern fish
183
Statistics of the manufacture of oil and guano
184
Returns for the United States
187
Comparative yield of oil from the menhaden and whale fisheries
190
Comparative yield of nitrogen from the menhadenfactories and from the imports of birdguano
191
The markets for menhaden oil
192
Stay in Block Island Sound
193
SECTION N MENHADEN AND OTHER FISH AND THEIR PRODUCTS AS RELATED TO AGRICULTURE By W O Atwater See also Appendix 0
194
Menhaden in a fresh state used as a fertilizer
195
Use at beginning of present century and later
196
Early manufacture in England
213
The Norwegian fishguano
214
Manufacture of glue and removal of oil in preparation of fish guanos
217
Success of fishguano as a fertilizer in Europe
218
Kinds of fertilizers made from fish refuse
219
Fishguano methods of manufacture and needs of improvement statements of Professor Goessmann
223
APPENDIX A Circular relating to statistics of the menhaden fishery
266
Bibliography of literature relating to the menhaden
274
From Storers History of the Fishes of Massachusetts 1867 p 168
283
history of the menhaden
289
APPENDIX F Tables of ocean temperatures for certain points on the east coast of the United
291
Partial list of vessels employed in the menhaden fishery
297
necticut
337
Proceedings of the United States Menhaden Oil and Guano Association
358
Annual reports of menhaden oil and guano manufacturers in the State of Maine
368
APPENDIX N Statements of correspondentsContinued
373
Stay in Narragansett
380
THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON
396
Stay in Cape Cod
407
Statement of David F Loring Cape Cod lightstation North Truro Mass February 23 1875
409
Statement of Josiah Hardy 2d Chatham Mass February 17 1874 and January
410
Statement of Alonzo Y Lothrop Hyannis Mass February 18 1874 and January
412
Statement of William S Allen Nantucket Mass January 1875
413
Statement of R C Kenney Nantucket Mass January 21 1874
414
General considerations as to the winter retreat of summer fishes
416
Statement of Jason Luce Co North Tisbury Mass January 6 1875
417
Statement of Luce Brothers East Lyme December 4 1877
418
Statement of E T De Blois Portsmouth R I November 26 1877
425
Statement of William H Potter Mystic River Conn January 27 1874
428
Statement of John Washington Mystic Conn December 30 1874
430
Statement of Leander Wilcox Mystic Bridge Conn January 15 1875
431
Statement of Samuel C Beebe Cornfield Point lightvessel No 12 Saybrook Conn January 6 1875
432
Statement of R E Ingham Saybrook lighthouse Saybrook Conn March 17 1874
433
Statement of J L Stokes Westbrook Conn February 25 1875
435
From Günthers Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum VII p 436
436
Statement of B Lillingston Stratford Conn February 23 1874
437
Statement of W S Havens Sag Harbor N Y January 1 1875
441
Statement of Hawkins Brothers Jamesport N Y February 25 1875
443
Statement of Benjamin H Sisson Greenport R I January 29 1874
445
Statement of David G Vail River Head Long Island March 20 1875
447
Statement of Joseph Whaley Point Judith light Point Judith R I December
449
Statement of A G Wolf Absecom light Atlantic City N J March 6 1874
450
Statement of Albert Morris Somers Point N J January 12 1875
451
Statement of D E Foster Cape May lighthouse N J February 15 1875
453
Statement of James H Bell Mispillion River Delaware Bay January 23 1875
454
Statement of Benjamin Tice Maurice River light January 11 1875
457
Statement of Hance Lawson Crisfield Md January 22 1874
458
Statement of Isaac D Robbins Hog Island February 21 1874
460
Statement of G Henry Seldon Kinsale Westmoreland County Va August 1874
461
Statement of Henry Richardson Cape Henry February 9 1874
464
The movements of the schools of menhaden
465
Statement of A W Simpson jr Cape Hatteras N C January 20 1875
470
Statement of A W Simpson jr Cape Hatteras N C January 25 1875
471
Statement of Wallace R Jennett Cape Hatteras N C February 26 1874
474
Statement of A C Davis Beaufort N C February 14 1874 and January 27 1875
475
Statement of W T Hatsel Bodys Island N C March 4 1874 and February 23 1875
477
Statement of W A Harn Morris Island S C January 21 1875
478
Statement of George Gage Beaufort S C January 20 1874
479
Statement of J F Hall Brunswick Ga April 11 1876
481
Statement of Charles Koch Jacksonville Fla January 15 1874
482
Statement of D P Kane Matagorda Texas March 1 1874
483
Letter from C A Goessman on the agricultural value of menhaden fertilizers
485
A description of the factory of the Pacific Guano Company at Woods Holl Mass
487
The Cumberland Bone Companys works
491
The Quinnipiac Fertilizer Companys works
492
The Crowell Manufacturing Company
493
Method of calculating costs of valuable ingredients of fertilizers By W O Atwater
495
Improved methods of drying fishscrap
502
APPENDIX P Exports of menhaden oil from the port of New York from January 1875 to July 1878
503
APPENDIX Q Supplementary works September 22 1878
506
The spawning grounds of the menhaden
507
Menhaden fishing on a Long Island steamer By Ernest Ingersoll
508
The manufacture of sardines from menhaden
512
Small oiltrying in Maine 1860
513
The use of fish for manure by the early colonists of Massachusetts
514
Explanation of plates
515
Alphabetical index
519
APPENDIX ECatalogue of specimens in the United States National Museum illustrating
525
Karl Dambeck GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE GADIDÆ OR THE COD FAMILY
531
Anonymous AN ACCOUNT OF THE LOFFODEN ISLANDS OF NORWAY Translated by
559
G O Sars REPORT OF PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COD FISHERIES
565
G O Sars REPORT OF PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS ON THE COD FISHERIES
612
G O Sars REPORT MADE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OF INVESTIGATIONS
663
lated from the French by J Paul Wilson
707
G Von Yhlen REPORT ON THE SEAFISHERIES OF THE LÄN Of Göteborg AND BOHUS
741
Senator Dantziger THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE EMDEN JOINT STOCK HERRING
751
Anonymous THE BEST FOOD FOR YOUNG SALMONOIDS AND FOR LARGER SALMONOIDS
779
XIL Livingston Stone REPORT OF OPERATIONS AT THE UNITED STATES SALMONHATCH
797
Fred Mather AcCOUNT OF TRIP TO EUROPE WITH EGGS OF THE QUINNAT SALMON
811
Interference of illegal fishing with the results
817
Record of fishing at Grand Lake Stream Maine October and November
824
from October 1875 to March 1878 inclusive
841
Plan of the inclosures used at the Schoodic salmon breeding establishment Grand
846
B Eckhardt THE EXPERIMNTS IN EPROPAGATING THE MAIFISCH ALOSA VULGARIS
853
Fred Mather THE EXPERIMENT OF TRANSPORTING TURBOT AND SOLE FROM ENGLAND
867
Karl Möbius HOW CAN THE CULTIVATION OF THE OYSTER ESPECIALLY ON THE GER
875
OBSERVATIONS WITH THE CASELLAMILLER DEEPSEA THERMOMETER By Commander L
887
John Gamgee ON ARTIFICIAL REFRIGERATION By John Gamgee London England
901

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Էջ 7 - States and of the islands aforesaid, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with the fishermen of the United States in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.
Էջ 7 - Islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to any distance from the shore; with permission to land upon the coasts and shores of those Colonies and the Islands thereof, and also upon the Magdalen Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish...
Էջ 8 - XXI of this treaty, the amount of any compensation which, in their opinion, ought to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in return for the privileges accorded to the citizens of the United States under Article XVIII of this treaty; and that any sum of money which the said Commissioners may so award shall be paid by the United States Government, in a gross sum, within twelve months after such award shall have been given.
Էջ 7 - States fishermen by the convention between the United States and Great Britain, signed at London on the 20th day of October, 1818, of taking, curing, and drying fish on certain coasts of the British North American colonies therein defined, the inhabitants of the United States shall have, in common with the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty...
Էջ 8 - States conjointly ; and in case the third Commissioner shall not have been so named within a period of three months from the date...
Էջ 7 - States, as places reserved from the common right of fishing under that treaty, shall be regarded as in like manner reserved from the common right of fishing under the preceding articles. In case any question should arise between the Governments of the United States and of Her Britannic Majesty as to the common right of fishing in places not thus designated as reserved, it is agreed...
Էջ 7 - Colonies therein defined, the inhabitants of the United States shall have, in common with the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty, for the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII. of this treaty, to take fish of every kind, except shell-fish, on the sea-coasts and shores, and in the bays, harbours, and creeks, of the provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the colony of I'rince Edward's Island, and of the several islands thereunto adjacent, without being restricted to...
Էջ 7 - It is agreed by the high contracting parties that British subjects shall have, in common with the citizens of the United States, the liberty...
Էջ 8 - Commissioners shall be appointed to determine, having regard to the privileges accorded by the United States to the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, as stated in Articles XIX and XXI of this treaty, the amount of any compensation which, in their opinion, ought to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty...
Էջ 7 - ... with the rights of private property or with the fishermen of the United States in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose. It is understood that the above-mentioned liberty applies solely to the sea fishery; and that salmon and shad fisheries, and all other fisheries in rivers and mouths of rivers, are hereby reserved exclusively for fishermen of the United States.

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