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Spanish mackerel, prejudice against 545 



salted 550 



season for 550 



weirs 602 



Spanish mullet fishermen 562 



Spawn, cod, for herring bait 507 



haddock 239 



Spawning grounds for shad 620 



hahits of cod on Grand Bank 167 



eels 769 



herring 420,426 



salmon 741 



smelt 690 



season of cod 206 



atAlaska 199 



shad in Florida 615 



Spears, eel 696,703 



salmon 679 



Spiller, mackerel 266 



Spinney, M. B 694 



Spirling for cod hait 231 



Split-tails in Sacramento River 737 



Splitting-keelers, mackerel 267 



Sports of fishermen '. 163 



Spot, apparatus for capturing 535 



best time for catching 536 



fishermen 534 



fishery of Southern Delaware 533 



gill-nets 530 



methods of capturing 535 



handling 537 



price of 537 



Spotted Island, Labrador 135 



Spring Southern mackerel fishery 273 



Spurliug, small herring called , 420 



torching 499 



Squalus acanthias 206,209 



Squeteagne 567 



disposition of catch of 532 



fishermen 528 



fishery 527 533 



fishing -grounds for 527 



in Buzzard's Bay 603 



Massachusetts 667 



pound-nets 608 



Rhode Island pound-nets 604 



method of shipping 532 



methods of capturing 529,530 



nets 529 



season for 527 



seines 529 



Squid as food for cod 207 



* fishery at Newfoundland 184 



for cod bait 127, 151, 184, 185, 199, 436, 437 



red-snapper bait 588 



giant, for cod bait 185 



habits of 184 



in Cape Cod weirs 600 



pound-nets 607 



jigging at Newfoundland 184 



of the Pacific 199 



lines and jigs 127 



salted, for cod bait 127 



Squids, Spanish mackerel 546 



Stake-lifters for pound-nets 760 



Stake-nets 619,643 



mullet 568 



shad 627,631,636,644,658 



Statistics of Albemarle Sound fisheries 636,637 



canned-salmon industry 734 



Connecticut River fisheries 666 



Delaware River fisheries 654 



frozen-herring trade 457 



Great Lakes fisheries 769 



hake fishery 243 



halibut fishery 3 



herring catch 432,437 



Housatonic River fisheries 667 



Hudson River fisheries 658 



James River fisheries 639 



Long Island pound-nets 607 



mackerel fishery 304 



inspection 312 



Massachusetts pound-net fisheries. . . 604 



Mattapony River fisheries 643 



menhaden fishery 360 



mullet fishery 575 



Neuse River fisheries 631 



Pauiunkey River fisheries 643 



pickled-herring trade 466 



Potomac River fisheries 645 



pound-net fishery 606, 607, 609 



pound-nets 605,608,609 



Rappahannock River fisheries 644 



salmon industry 734, 735, 736, 739, 740, 



751,753 



sardines 520,521 



shad fishery 614-617, 618, 619, 621, 624, 



625, 626 



skim-net shad fishery 630 



smoked-herring industry 488 



sturgeon fishery . . .621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626 



Susquehauua fisheries 653 



swordfishery 325 



Willow Branch fishery 633-635 



Steamer in red-snapper fishery 589 



menhaden, crew of 332 



description of 334 



first used 368 



Steam-tugs in gill-net fishery 762 



Great Lakes fisheries 759 



Steindachner, on cod I'JS 



Steuben, Me., herring fleet of 438 



Stearns, Silas.. 545, 552, 555, 558, 561, 562, 564, 509, 571, 574, 

 575, 576, 579, 580, 583, 584, 590 



Stone, Livingstone, on Sacramento salmon 735 



Stony Island, Labrador 135 



Stop-fishing for mullet 569 



Stop-nets, striped bass 694, 7^3 



Saint Pierre, bait carried to 450 



Straits of Belle Isle, fish-curing at 141 



fishery in 146 



Straits of Canso, mackerel fishery at 297, 298 



landed at 291 



Striped bass 650 



catch of, in Delaware River 654 



dip-nets 694 



fishery of Kennebec River 723 



