INDEX. 



849 



Colombia, United S|,-Urn ( 22 



Commander Islands, fur-seals ou 331 , 361 



Commodore Morris Ground 9 



Comoro Islands, sperm whales around 12 



Conception Bay, whaling at 1 ' 



Concord River, shell heaps on 599 



Congo River, whaling at 158 



Connecticut, decrease in oysters in 516 



early whaling at 3-2 



former abundance of oysters in 511 



lobster boats ' 070 



fishermen in 679 



fishery in (561,705,787-789 



laws of 728,705,736 



statistics for 793 



natural oyster beds in 517 



oyster culture in 545 



industry statistics 564 



planting in 534 



present abundance of lobsters in 710 



quahaug fishery in 604 



report of shell-fish commissioners 545 



soft-clam fishery in 589, 594 



whaling fleet of 3 



Cook, Captain, onKerguelen Land 418 



Copper Island, fur seals on 331 



Corinthian Bay, sealing at 420 



Cornell Ground, sperm whales on 9 



Corral of sea-lions 469 



Cottle, Frank M. , on lobster fishery 781 



laws 727 



Cotuit, Mass., lobster fishery at 778, 780 



Crab, as bait 631,634, (i43 



bay 630 



blue, as bait 638,646 



blue-claw 630 



blue, coast review of fishery for 635 



distribution, season, &c 630 



oxteut of fishery for 634 



fishery for 629,632 



in Delaware 639 



Florida 644 



Georgia 644 



Maryland 641 



New England 635 



New Jersey 636 



New York 635 



North Carolina 642 



South Carolina 643 



Virginia 641 



for bait 635,642 



in Gulf of Mexico 644 



markets for 638 



methods of catching 632,637,638 



natural history of 629 



season for 636, 638,644 



in Chesapeake Bay 642 



shedding season of 636 



size of 630 



statistics for Delaware 648 



Georgia 648 



Louisiana 648 



Maryland 648 



New Jersey 648 



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Crab, blue, statistic* for New York 648 



North Carolina ti48 



South Carolina 648 



Texas 648 



Virginia 648 



of 64*1,658 



transportation of 632 



value of 630,640 



winter habits of 631,044 



boats 638 



in Delaware 040 



boiled 643 



buckler 630 



buster 630 



canceriue made from 654 



canneries ou Chesapeake Bay 034 



canning of 646, 647 



methods of B4G 



origin of the industry 646 



statistics of 647 



cars or pens for 633, 637 



channel 629 



comer 689 



common edible, fishery for 629 



fiddler 648 



as bait 648 



injurious to levees ..". 648 



nshermen 634 



fishery 627-658 



coast review of 635 



implements of 632, 640, 642, 644 



in Great Britain 723 



season for 630 



fisheries of Pacific coast 657, 658 



statistical recapitulation of 658 



green 630, 651 



Gulf 029 



hard 630, 631, 645, 646 



catch of, in New Jersey 639 



sales iu New York City 636 



hard-shell 630 



hermit 652 



hoop-net 632 



horseshoe, as bait 652 



chicken food 655 



fed to swine 652 



fishery for 652-657 



for fertilizers.. 653 



methods of catchin g 653 



statistics of 657,658 



transplanting, to California 743 



Joe Rocker 651 



Jonah 629,635 



economic importance of 649 



kelp, of Pacific coast 657 



king 653 



lady 629,651 



as bait 651 



lake 630 



marketed alive at New Orleans 645 



method of packing 635 



shipping 633 



mud 649 



mussel 64' 



