850 



INDEX. 



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Crab, names during period of shedding 630 



nets 637, G44 



in Chesapeake Bay 042 



oyster 019 



commercial importance of > 048 



pickled 048 



Pacific species of C57 



paddlcr 630 



paper shell 630 



peeler 630 



pens for, iu New Jersey 638 



pound-nets for horseshoe 053 



purple shore 657 



red, Pacific coast 0,">7 



red rock 658 



river , 630 



rock 629,649 



fishery for 649 



Pacific coast 657 



statistics of 658 



sand 051 



sea 629, ill;' 



as bait 644 



seines for 632 



scoop-net for 640 



shedder 630 



soft 630,045,64(1 



at Indian Kiver, Delaware 641 



catch of, iu Ne w Jersey 639 



in Gulf of Mexico 045 



price of 640 



sales in New York City 636 



season for 639 



soft-shelled 631 



spider 651 



squeaker 651 



stone G2D,64s,<;.>i 



torching for 645 



trot-line for 633, 636, 642, 643, 645 



yellow shore 657 



Cranberry Island, Maine, lobster fishery at 750 



Crandall, H. L., ou whaling with nets 247 



Craugou franciscorum 807 



vulgaris 799,801,807 



Crayfish at New Orleans 795 



San Francisco 795 



Washington 795 



average -weight of 798 



fishery for 627,794-798 



general review of 794 



fresh water 794 



German methods of capture 790 



packing 796 



H. Eubelius on 796 



in Germany 790 



New York City 794 



method of packing 7 Do 



Potomac 795 



salt-water 798 



statistics of 797, 798 



Creels, lobster iii;s 



Crisfield, Md., oyster packing iu 561 



Croatau Sound, shrimp in *02 



Crozet Islands, discovery of 417 



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Crozet Islands, humpback whales at 23 



right whales near 16 



sealing at 417, 419 



voyages to 446-460 



whaling at 149, 150 



Cuba, sperm whales olf 8 



Cumberland Inlet, number of whaling voyages to. 174 



whaling fleet iu 147 



in 8, 18, 96, 149, 150, 



152-164, 203 



Gunners for lobster bait 676 



Cunningham & Cogau whaling gun 253 



Cutchogne, N. Y., scallop industry at 577 



Cuttle-fish in ambergris 5 



Cutler, Me., lobster fishery at 747 



Jobsterracii at 679 



Cutting in the whale 277 



early methods of :il 



in California 53 



Cutting-spades, whalemen's 281 



Cutting-tackle 280 



Cuttyhunk Island, fishing club at 661 



I'uttyhunk, Mass., lobster fishery at 780,782 



Cyprina islandica 581 



Cystophora cristata 474 



Dagsborough, Del., blue-crab fishery at 641 



Damariscotta, Me., extinction of oysters at 513 



oyster-shell heaps at 509,504 



Damariscotta River, Maine, lobster grounds at ... 662 



oysters in 509 



Dangers encountered by whaling vessels 235 



of Antarctic sealing 429 



Arctic whaling 79 



Newfoundland seal fishery 480 



sealer's life 438 



whale fishery 215 



Darien, Conn., oyster planting at 535 



Darting gun, whaleman's 254 



Dartmouth, Mass., census of whaling fleet 173 



lobster fishery at 783 



whale fishery statistics, 1771 to 



1775 116 



whaling fleet of 3, 171, 17V 



voyages from, 1872 to 



1880 178-192 



Davis, Capt. S. S., on lobster fishery 700 



Davis Strait, abundance of whales in 



bottle-nose whales in 204 



bowhead whales iu 18 



record of whaling voyages to 99-101 



right whales iu 15 



whale fishery in.. .3,27,94, 102, 112, 194, 198 



Deer Isle, Maine, lobsters at 707, 752 



whales off 22 



Delago Hay, right whales in 16 



Delano's Voyages, quoted - - - 407 



Delaware, blue-crab fishery in 039 



catch of turtle in 499 



horseshoe crabs iu 053,054 



lobsters in 793 



oyster iudust ry statistics 564 



laws in 528 



planting iu 528 



shrimp fishery in 801 



