876 



INDEX. 



Page. 



True, Frederick W., on scallop fishery 575 



sea-clams. 609 



turtle and terrapin fisher- 

 ies 493-505 



Trnuibull, J. H., ou origin of quahaug 595 



Truro, Mass., blaekfish at 304 



lobster fishery at 778 



season at 064 



whaling fleet of 171, 172 



Tnckerunck, Mass., lobster fishery at 780 



Turtle, canning, in Texas 498 



crawl or pen 498 



fishery, boats in 498 



ofFlorida 496 



North Carolina 495 



Pacificcoast 499 



South Carolina 496 



statistics of 499 



green, fishery for 495 199 



hawksbill, fishery for 495-499 



loggerhead, fishery for 495-499 



Turtles caught in cast-nets 496 



gill-nets 496,497 



with drag-nets and seines 495 



crawls or pens for live 498 



gill-nets for capture of 496 



large 498 



number taken 496 



sizes of 495,496,498 



Tussock grass at Tristan Islands 414 



Two Forties, whaling ground called 9 



Two Thirty-sixes, whaling ground 9 



Underwood, George K., & Co 669, 695, 746 



Underwood, William 765 



Underwood, William, &, Co., lobster cannery of .749,751 



Unionidae 615 



Union Oyster Company 560 



Vancouver Island, clams at 611 



Van Diemen's Land, whaling at 17 



Varangar Fiord, Fiumark 19 



Vasques ground, sperm wiiales on 11 



Veniamiuov, Bishop Innocent 332, 485 



Ventura County, California, alialones in 624 



claius at 613 



Vriuis mercenaria 581, 595-613 



Verrill, Professor, on clams 589 



mussels 617 



oysters 507 



quahaugs 596 



razor-fish 613 



Vessels, Newfoundland sealing 479 



oyster, total statistics of .. 564 



sealing 420,4:59 



sponging fJ'J 



whaling. (.See Whaling vessels.) 



Vinal Haven. Me., lobster fishery at 7">5 



grounds at 662 



Vim-yard Sound, Mass., blue-crab fishery in 635 



green crabs in 651 



lobster fishery at 705 



lobsters at 661 



Virginia, blue-crab fishery in 641 



crab canneries in 634,646 



law regulating oyster dredging 525 



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Virginia, natural oyster beds in 511 



northern bedding of oysters from 522 



oyster-industry statistics 564, 565 



oyster laws in 549 



packing in 562 



planting in 525. 527 



statistics for 553 



tougiug in 525 



shrimp in 800-801 



soft clams in '. . 593 



statistics of blue crabs 648 



terrapin fishery of 503 



whale fishery from 107 



Voyages of whaling vessels, record of 99-101 



Wages of lobster-cauners ... 693 



scallop-openers 573 



Wainwright.'s Inlet, whalers lost in 80,88 



Waldoboro' district, lobster fishery in 759-761 



statistics in 770-772 



Waldoboro', Me., soft clams at 584 



Walpole, Sp encer, on lobsters 723 



Walrus, distribution of Pacific 313 



Eskimo methods of capture (see plates) . . 314 



fishery by Arctic whalers 311-318 



development of 314 



in 1594 192 



statistics of 318 



flesh used for food 31g 



galls used by Chinese 316 



heart and liver for food 316 



habits of Pacific 313 



ivory 4,317,318,378 



leather from hides of 316 



oil of 157 



stripping and preparing blubber 316 



taken by Arctic whalers 75 



tongue used for food 316 



whalemen's methods of capturing 314 



Walrus Island, Pribylov group 328 



Wampum, sheila made into 0J 



\Vareham, Mass., oyster laws at 515 



oysters at 510 



whaling fleet of 171,172 



Warehain River, Massachusetts, oysters at ">ll> 



Warren, R. I., sealing fleet of 440 



voyage from 455 



whaling fleet of 171,172 



Warren River, Rhode Island, oyster planting in.. 536 



oysters in 510 



Washington, D. C., 'crayfish at 794 



Washington Territory, crabs in 657 



decrease i n oysters in 520 



fur-seal industry at 393 



oyster-industry statistics. 564, 565 



sealing fleet of 399 



shore whaling at 3 



Water Mill, N. Y., hard clams at 600 



Weddell, Captain, on fur-sealing 412 



Weddell's voyages, quoted 406 



Wellfleet, Mass., blackfish ashore at 300-305 



horseshoe crabs at 652 



oysters at 509, 514 



oyster schooners of 521 



quahaug fishery at 603 



