42G BULLETIN OF THE UNITE1J STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



S3 K£P«KT FOR 1879 A.\D tSHO OF THE BALE OF FISH I IV FlI/IOIV 



HIABKET, IVEW VORK. 



[From the New York .Market Index and Journal, April 3, 1880.] 



FISH. ETC., BY POUNDS. 



Kinds of fish. 



Flounders 



Halibut 



Codfish 



Pollock 



Haddock 



Frosttish 



Blackfish 



Spanish mackerel. 



Weakflsh 



Kingfish 



Sheepshead 



Porgies 



Sea liass 



March 1, 1878, to March 1. 1879, to 

 March 1, 1879. March 1, 1880. 



Striped bass 

 Blue fish — 

 Smelts ... 



Salmon 



Herring. 



Eels 



Sturgeon ... 

 Black-bass .. 

 Pickerel ... 

 Yellow pike 

 Siscoe 



White Bah 



Brook trout 



Salmon trout 



Catfish 



Salmon, fresh -water . 



Gieen turtles 



Lobsters 



Salt-water fish 



Total 



FISH BY COUNT. 



Mackerel 

 Shad 

 Scollops .. 



2, 317, 763 



601,594 



46,551 



3, 827, 324 



953. 439 



30, 445 



Herring, frozen, of which there was no account in the year 1878, but 

 was in the year 1879, 1,001,520 pounds. The decrease in bluefish for 

 the past year is owing- to none being - taken in Southern waters off the 

 coast of North Carolina, as the Ashing there in the months of November 

 and December of 1879 was a complete failure. The decrease in striped 

 bass is owing, in a great measure, to the law passed by the legislature 

 of the State of New York in 1878, prohibiting the taking, or Inning for 

 sale, any bass of less weight than one-half pound. 



The increase in weaktish has been very large the last year — almost 

 300,000 pounds — a large quantity being caught on the coast of New 

 Jersey, where, the year before, hardly any were taken. The increase 

 in shad is also quite large in 1879. Fulton Market docs not receive 



