INDEX 453 



Mount Desert Rock, 9; Nantucket Sound, 11; New Jersey Coast, 

 18; Pleasant Bay, 7; Prince Edward's Island, 7; Vineyard 

 Sound, 11; Off Cotuit, 11; Off Hyannis, 11; Offshore Fire 

 Island, 17; Old, 18; Old Jeffrey's, 10; Old Man's Pasture, 10; 

 Pigeon-hill, 7; Pollock, 8; Pollock Rip, 10; Rocky Spots, 18; 

 Seal Island, 14; Seguin, 10; Shark River, 18; Shinnicook, 17; 

 Southwest Rock, 15; Spot of Rocks, 10; Squan, 18; South 

 West, 11; Tanter, 10; Ten Acres, 10; Wolves Haddock, 8. 



Ledges: Bishop and Clark's, 11; Brown's, 10; Cashe's, 12; Jeffrey's, 

 12; Kettle Island, 10; Main, 15; Mistaken, 12; Morris, 10; 

 Outer Crab, 10; Saturday Night's, 10; West Cod, 10; South- 

 west, 11; Cox's, 11; Shark's, 11; South West, 11. 



Ridges: Eagle, 10; Hart's, 10; Outer Schoodic, 9; Western Part, 

 10. 



Shoals: Briar, 15; Bucksport, 15; Cultivator, 13; Davis, 11; 

 Eastern, 15; East Shoal Water of Cape Ann, 12; Fishing Rip, 

 11; Nantucket, 11; Southwest, 13; Virgin Rocks, 15. 



Fishing schooner, evolution of, 308-320; first, 311; "heel-tapper," 

 312, 313. 



" Flakes," 96. 



Fortune Bay riot, 204, 205; damages awarded for, 206. 



Free fishing, controversy over, 44-46. , 



French, traditional discovery of Banks of New Foundland, 22; first 

 authentic voyage of to Newfoundland, 23; early explorers, 24; 

 and English, beginning of hostilities, 29, 30; effect of Treaty 

 of Utrecht on, 79-81; extent of fisheries of, 89, 90; reasons for 

 opposition of British fishermen to, 100, 101 ; terms of final treaty 

 with, 101. 



French and Indian War, decline of fisheries during, 94; revival of 

 fisheries at close of, 99; terms of treaty after, 101. 



Frenchman's Bay, fisheries of, 178-180. 



Fresh-fish industry, methods of, 282, 283; statistics of, 283, 284. 



Gloucester, before 1700, 81; beginning of shipbuilding at, 81, 82; 



fisheries of, 147, 148, 189-194; importance of as fishing port, 



189; mackerel fishery of, 189-191; codfishery of, 191-193; 279- 



281. 



Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, voyage of, 27. 

 Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, interest in American colonization, 33, 34; 



charter of, 43, 44. 



Gosnold, Bartholomew, voyage of, 31, 32. 

 Grampus, the, description of, 317, 318. 

 Grand Bank of Newfoundland, kinds of fish on, 15; fishing season of, 



15; importance of fisheries at, 16. 

 Groundfish, methods of catching, 247, 279; kinds of, 278; industry, 



condition since Civil War, 281, 282. 



Gulf of Maine, description and importance of, 11; fish of, 12. 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, description of, 6, 7; fishing opportunities of, 



152. 



Hague Tribunal of Arbitration, Award of, 373-449. 

 Halibut, first voyages for, 278, 279. 



