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Commissioners on inland fisheries, 

 may occupy great ponds for fish 

 culture, etc 340 



Commissioners on inland fisheries, to 

 examine dams and fishways upon 

 Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers, 363 



Commissioners on inland fisheries, 

 to investigate fisheries on North 

 River, Plymouth County . , 339 



Commissioners on inland fisheries, 

 returns to be made by owners of 

 weirs, etc., of fish taken . . 341, 356 



Concord River, fisheries . . 71, 205 



Concord River, mouth of, alewives, 

 salmon and shad . . .39, 127, 172 



Concord River, Billerica, alewives 

 and shad 145 



Conjiamon Ponds, Southwick, fish 

 not to be taken with seines or nets, 193 



Connecticut River, fisheries regu- 

 lated . 45. 69, 358, 360, 366, 367, 369 



Connecticut River, alewives and 

 shad 332,349 



Connecticut River, fish not to be taken 

 within four hundred yards of a fish- 

 way 360 



Connecticut River, salmon . . 311 



Connecticut River, salmon and shad, 132, 



205, 313 



Connecticut River, shad . 253, 323, 336 



Connecticut River, resolution, pas- 

 t,age of sliad 392 



Connecticut River, size of mesh pre- 

 scribed . . . 295, 318, 348, 367 



Connecticut River, commissioners to 

 be appointed ; construction of fish- 

 ways .... 303, 320, 340 



Connecticut River, attention of state 

 of Connecticut called to the dam at 

 Enfield Falls 306 



Connecticut River, fishways, etc., 

 to be examined by commissioners . 363 



Connecticut River, Holvoke, height 

 of dam . . . " . . .300 



Connecticut River, Holyoke, fishway 

 over dam 312 



Connecticut River, South Hadley 

 Falls, salmon and shad . . 61, 161 



Coonamisset Pond, Falmouth, her- 

 ring and alewives .... 237 



Cottage City and Edgartown, seining 

 regulated 391 



Coy's Brook, Harwich, obstructions 

 to be removed 267 



Coy's Brook Fishing Company, Har- 

 wich, herring 223 



Crane, Porter's and Waters Rivers in 

 Danvers and Beverly . . . 264 



Cultivation of useful fishes, 279, 309, 315, 

 321, 323, 324, 325, 329, 330, 332, 340, 347 



D. 



Dam Pond to Wild Harbor, Fal- 

 mouth, alewives .... 255 

 Dams, fishways . . . 303, 315, 340 

 Danvers, alewives . . 14, 120, 142 

 Danvers, Ipswich River, alewives and 



other fish . . . 129, 134, 177, 180 

 Danvers and Beverly, Porter's, Crane 



and Waters Rivers .... 264 

 Dartmouth, lobsters, tautog, bass and 

 other fish 178, 374 



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Dartmouth, Apponigansett River and 

 tributaries, seining prohibited . 264 



Dartmouth, Pasequamanset River, 

 alewives 53 



Deerfield River, size of mesh pre- 

 scriljed .... 318, 348, 367 



Dennis, alewives . . .211, 246 



Dennis, alewives, herring, perch and 

 eels 151 



Dennis, fish-weir, by Ira Wixon and 

 Elijah Whittemore . . . .262 



Dennis, fish-weir by Barnabas W. Ei- 

 dridge and others .... 262 



Dennis, Flax Pond to Sesuit Creek, 

 alewives 251 



Dennis, Vineyard Sound, bluefish . 386 



Dennis and Yarmouth, Bass River, 

 alewives, herring, salmon, trout 

 and perch . . . 241, 3-55, 387 



Dennis and Yarmouth Improvement 

 Company may conduct fisheries; 

 artificial propagation of fish . . 379 



Dexter's River and Coonamisset 

 Pond, Falmouth, herring and ale- 

 wives 237 



Dighton, Newmasket River, alewives 

 and shad 270 



Dighton, Taunton Great River, ale- 

 wives and shad, 155, 168, 200, 225, 268 



Dorchester, Neponset River, ale- 

 wives and other fish ... 67 



Dorchester, Neponset River, smelts 

 and eels 181 



Dracut, Beaver Brook, alewives . 177 



Dracut, Peter's Pond, alewives . . 203 



Dukes County, fisheries regulated, 354, 373, 



383, 391 



Dukes County, leasing of Great 

 Ponds, 323, 337 ; repealed . . 355 



Dukes County, smelts . . . 313 



Dunstable, Massapaug Ponds . . 120 



Duxbury, deposit of waste dressing 

 in waters of 279 



Duxbury, Island Creek Brook, ale- 

 wives 80 



E. 



East Bridgewater, Satucket River, 

 shad, herring and alewives ; fish- 

 ways 326, 347 



East Falmouth, Herring River Com- 

 pany, incorporated .... 293 



East Head, Carver and Plymouth, 

 trout 307 



East Quittacus Pond, alewives, 94, 124, 154 



Eastham, fish-weir .... 244 



Eastham, Great Pond, alewives . 350 



Eastham Fishing Company, incorpo- 

 rated 218 



Edgartown, eels 352 



Edgartown, harbor of, seining regu- 

 lated .... 190, 277, 328 



Edgartown, lobsters, tautog, bass and 

 other fish 186 



Edgartown, striped bass and blue- 

 fish 378, 389 



Edgartown, Farm Pond Fishing 

 Company, incorporated . . 275, 383 



Edgartown, Great Pond, Mattakce- 

 sett Herring Fishery . . . 247 



Edgartown, Great Pond and Job's 

 Neck Pond through South Beach 

 to the ocean . . . 359, 379, 383 



