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THE MACKEREL FISHERY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



1. THE MACKEREL PURSE-SEINE FISHERY. 



1. The fishing grounds. 



2. The fishermen. 



3. The vessels. 



4. Apparatus and methods of fishing. 



5. The care of the fish. 



6. Running for the market. 



7. Landing the cargoes. 



8. Financial profits of seining. 



9. History of the use of purse-seines. 



10. The attempted use of the purse-seine in Norwegian 

 waters. 



2. THE SPRING SOUTHERN MACKEREL FISHERY. 



1. Fishing grounds. 



2. Early catches of mackerel, 1878 to 1881. 



3. The vessels, apparatus, and methods of fishing. 



3. THE MACKEREL HOOK FISHERY. 



1. The fishing grounds. 



2. The fishermen. 



3. The vessels. 



4. Apparatus and methods of fishing. 



5. The care of the fish. 



6. Homeward passage and disposition of the fish. 



7. Financial profits of the mackerel hook fishery. 



8. Itinerary of a mackerel voyage to the Gulf of Saint 



Lawrence. 



4. THE MACKEREL GILL-NET FISHERY. 



1. Apparatus and methods. | 2. History of mackerel gill-net fishing. 



5. EARLY METHODS OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY (1620 TO 1820). 

 1. Catching mackerel with drag-seines. | 2. Drailing for mackerel. 



6. LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MACKEREL. 



1. Legislation in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- 

 turies. 



2. Protest against gigging and seining in the present 

 century. 



7. STATISTICS OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY. 



1. Statistics of the fishing fleet and the products in 1880. 



2. Statistics of the New England fleet in 1879, 1880, and 



1881. 



3. Statistics of mackerel fishing by American vessels in 



the Gulf of Saint Lawrence from 1873 to 1882. 



4. Statistics of inspection of pickled mackerel. 



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