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INDEX 



Goode and Clark, menhaden industry, early 

 history of, 88 



Goods-curves, 384-88 



Gottschalk, L. C, determining erosion, 50 



Gowanloch, J. N., striped bass, 120 



Gracilaria (seaweed), 234-48, passim 



Graham, President [Frank P.] v, vi 



Grand Bank, mentioned, 7, 316 



Grave, Caswell, water densities, 44; oysters, 

 survey of, in N. C, 142 ; beds of, in Pamlico 

 Sound, discovered, 143; history of, 144; 

 spawning of, 147; "coon", 150; parasite, 

 151; culture of, on leased bottom, 153; in 

 North and Newport rivers, 154; beds, areas, 

 in Hyde County, 155 ; hard clam, ecology 

 of, 163 



Gray trout (Cynoscion regalis), Hatter as dis- 

 persal area, and migrations, 32 ; geographi- 

 cal range, 125; natural history, 125-26; 

 angling for, 276; economic behavior of, 408, 

 411-12 



Great Bridge (Va.), guard lock, 46, (charts) 

 47, 48 



Great Lakes, fisheries, decline of, economic 

 effects, 289-90; region, fishery production in, 

 307, 397, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 412, 421; 

 Appendix tables Nos. 46, 50 



Green, C. K., summer upweliing, 26, (chart) 

 27; mentioned, 30 



Greenfield fishery, shad, 112-14 



Green turtle, 219 



Gross, Raymont, Nutman, and Gauld, fertiliz- 

 ing natural waters, 68 



Gulf of Maine, menhaden in, 95, 96, 97, 102; 

 mullet in, 114; gray trout in, 125; soft 

 clams, 179; sea mussels, 183; surf clams in, 

 183; conchs in, 184; squid in, 184 



Gulf of Mexico, menhaden in, 92 ; Spanish 

 mackerel in, 116, 117; striped bass in, 120; 

 hard clam in, 161; oyster, 416; fishery pro- 

 duction in, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402 ; 

 Appendix tables Nos. 45, 50. See also Texas, 

 Louisiana; Regions 



Gulf of St. Lawrence, striped bass in, 120; 

 oyster in, 141; hard clam in, 161 



Gulf Stream and Gulf Stream System, char- 

 acteristics and flow of, 9 ff., effect on shift 

 in climate, 14, 15; in Cape Hatteras region, 

 23, 25, 30, 65; sport fishing in, 255 



"Gulf weed," 233 



Gunter, Gordon, mullet, in Texas, 115; Span- 

 ish mackerel, in Texas, 116 



Gutsell, J. S., water temperatures, Beaufort, 

 33; scallop, natural history of, 170-73; eco- 

 nomics of, 176; conservation of, 176-77 



Hachey, H. B., 15 



Haddock, fishery, New England, rise of, 318; 

 economic behavior of, 390-93, 407, 410 



Halibut, economic behavior of, 405, 407 



Halibut Vessel Owners Association, 323 



Hall, Irving Frank, ix 



Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna Zygaena), 279 



Hampton, Wilham Roy, ix 



Hand, I. F., solar radiation, 66 



Hardcastle, A. B., spawning of, menhaden, 98, 

 parasite on menhaden, 99 



Hard clam (Venus mercenaria, and V. mor- 

 toni), names and species, 160; production 

 of, by States, 1940, 1945, (table) 161 ; geo- 

 graphical range of, 160-161 ; natural history 

 of, 161-63; ecology of, 163-65; culture of, 

 165; industry, 165-68; production of, his- 

 torical, North Carolina, (table) 167; me- 

 chanical harvesters, 168; prices of, 168; 

 economic behavior of, 406 



Hard crab. See Blue crab 



Hariot, Thomas, blue crab, early mention of 

 (1588), 205 



Harkers Island, early menhaden plant, 89 



Harper, F. A., food, quantities of, consumed, 

 various countries, 329, 335, 363 



Harrison, R. W., distribution of menhaden, 92 



Hartman, Olga, oyster, worm enemy of, 151 



Harvestfish (Peprilus alepidotus), 132 



Harvey, H. W., composition of sea water, 36; 

 photosynthesis, 364 



Hatsel, Charles, terrapin, 225, 226 



Hatteras, Cape, continental shelf, 7; Gulf 

 Stream at, 12, 14; water temperature con- 

 ditions of, 21 ff., 70; occurrence of fishes in 

 region, 29 ff., bluefish, 118; bottom charac- 

 teristics of, 57-58; wind, wave, and weather 

 conditions at, 59-61 (chart); fog at, 60; air 

 temperatures for, (table) 62-63; as a fish- 

 ing ground, 259; mentioned, 7, 55 



Hatteras Inlet, tidal currents in, (table) 15; 

 trawl fishery, 32 



Hatteras region, movement of water from, to 

 Middle Atlantic, 21; temperature barrier at, 

 21, 25, 26, 182, 232; organisms and tem- 

 peratures in, 28-30; temperatures at, 33; 

 water turbulence, 37; temperature record, 

 historical, (table) 62-63 



Haul seine, 192, 317 



Hay, W. P., terrapin, 220, 225 



Heilner, Van Campen, 268 



Henry, Cape, Va., winter trawl fishery areas, 

 30 



Herring, family Clupeidae, 85; percentage of 

 total fish production, (table) 370 



Herrington, William C, fish and competing 

 foods compared, 390-93 (four charts) 



Hertford County. See Counties, coastal, N. C. 



Hickory shad, family Clupeidae, 85 



Higgins, E., shrimp, migrations, tagging, 200 



Higgins and Pearson, gray trout, spawning of, 

 127; destruction of, by nets, 127-28 



Hildebrand, S. F., species of menhaden, 92 ; 



