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Bowhead whale, beginning of fishery for 18, 74 



whalebone of 5 



fishery, 1868 to 1884 146,164 



grounds for 18 



whales, geographical distribution of 18 



in Arctic Ocean 56 



migration of 97 



natural history of 202 



Brand bomb-gun, description of 253 



Branford, Conn., extinction of oysters at 516 



oyster planting at 536 



Brazil Banks, whaling grounds 65 



Brazil, right whales off *. 16 



sperm whales oil" coast of 14 



Bremen, Germany, whalers of 218 



Bremen, Me., lobster fishery at 759 



Brewster, Mass., sea-clam fishery at 610 



Bridgehampton, N. Y. , hard clams at 606 



scallop industry at 579 



Bridgeport, Conn., oyster planting at 536 



oysters from 557 



soft clams at 590 



\vhalingfleetof 171 



Brilliant, whaling schooner 22 



Brintnall, Capt. Caleb, notes on sealing 443 



Bristol Bay, Alaska, right whales at 17 



whaling in 87 



Bristol, Me., lobster fishery at 759 



methods of lobster fishing at (177 



Bristol, R, I., lobster fishery at 785 



sealing fleet of 439,440 



voyages from 450-466 



whaling fleet of 171 



British Columbia, clams at 611 



fur-seals off 394 



sealing schooners of 396 



British provinces, lobster canning in 6*7 



decrease iu 711 



British whale fishery 197 



Brookhaven Bay, New York, decrease in oysters 



in r,17 



Brookhaven, N. Y., oyster planting at 534 



Brooklin, Me., lobster fishery at T.YJ 



Brooks, W. K., on oysters 507 



Brooksville, Me., lobster fishery at 752 



Brown, J. Temple ;>,:.' is 



on whale fishery 218-29 J 



Brown, R. , on bowhead whales 202 



Brunswick, Ga., whaling at 49 



Bryce, T. T., crab canning by 616 



Buckland, Frank, on lobster fishery 668,6/4,723 



Bucksport, Me., whaling fleet of 171 



Buddiugton, Capt. S. O., on Arctic whaling 95 



Bullock's Cove, R. I. , oyster planting in 536 



Bull's Bay, terrapin fishery in 502 



Buoys for lobster pots 667 



made of seal skin 395 



Buruham, George, on lobsters 731 



Burnham & Morrill 694,695,749,700 



Buzzard's Bay, blue-crab fishery in (!:;:> 



decrease in oysters in 515 



green crabs in 651 



laws regulating fisheries in 734 



lobster fishery in 7B3 



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Buzzard's Bay, oyster planting in 537 



oysters in 510 



scallop fishery in 575, 581 



Calais, Me., lobsters canned at 688 



Calais River, Maine, lobsters in 706 



California, abaloues in 622-62U 



Alaska Commercial Company of 386 



boat whaling in 52 



clams at 613 



crabs in 657 



fur-sealing in 393 



fur-seals in 357 



gray whales, capture of 53 



distribution of 23 



Indian name ' ' chet-a- 



puk" 62 



method of capturing 266 



number taken 24 



humpback whales at 22 



mussels at 621 



names of whaling stations in 54 



origin of whaling in 55 



prawn fishery of 809 



right whales oil' coast of 17 



rock-lobster fishery in 798 



scallops in 580 



sealing in 473 



sea-otter in 487 



shore whaling in 3, 23 



shrimp 807 



statistics of 810 



soft clams in 593 



sperm whales off 12 



transplanting lobsters to 741 



whales, number taken 60 



whaling fleet of 3 



Callao Ground, sperm whales on 10 



Calliuectes hastatus 629, 648 



statistics of 658 



larvatus 629 



tumidus 629 



Callista gigantea 5&1 



Callorhinus ursinus 393 



Cambridge, Md., oyster packing at 561 



Camilla Ground, sperm whales on 9 



Canada, crayfish in 794 



lobster canneries in 690 



canning in 687 



decrease in 711 



whale, fishery of 192,216 



Cauarsie, N. Y., blue-crab fishery at 636 



Cancer antenuarius 657 



borealis 629,635,649 



statistics of 658 



irroratns 629, 649 



statistics of 658 



magister 657 



statistics of 658 



productus 657 



Cancerine, analysis of 656 



made from horseshoe crabs 654 



Candles, spermaceti 5 



Canned clam chowder 606 



clams 606,690,751,754,763,765 



