INDEX 



555 



Weights, shipping, excess of, effect on cost of 

 distribution, 343-44 



Wells, Daniel, early menhaden factory, 88 



Wells, Bailey and Henderson, Chesapeake 

 drainage area, 65 



Welsh, William W., quoted on menhaden, 97 



Welsh and Breder, gray trout, 126; spot, 129; 

 croaker, 130 



Westman and Bidwell, menhaden, spawning of, 

 98; young of, in Hudson River, 100 



Weymouth, Lindner and Anderson, shrimp, 

 classification of, 193-94; kinds of, percent- 

 age, 196; temperature effects, 196; salinity 

 effects, 198; food of, 200 



Whale, 86; world production, 364 



White, John, ("Lost Colony"), blue crab men- 

 tioned, 205 



Whitefish, economic behavior of, 409, 412, 423 



White marlin {Makaira albida), migrations, 

 temperatures, 30; angling for, 273 



White mullet. See Silverside mullet 



White Oak River, 6 



White perch {M or one americana), 133 



Wholesale distributors, N. C, 452, ff. 



Wilmington, as fishing ground, 261 



Wind, currents, 16-19, 21; effect of, 44-49, 59, 

 ff. ; roses, Cape Hatteras, (chart) 61 



Winslow, Francis, 6, 10, 12; salinity, Pamlico 

 Sound, 38; winds, currents, etc., (quota- 

 tion), 49; nature of bottom, 58; oyster, 

 survey in N. C, 142; beds of, at Ocracoke, 

 143; culture, on leased bottom, 153, 155-56, 

 157; areas of sounds, 155 



Winslow, Rex S., vi, ix 



Winter trawl fishery, 30-32, 70 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 23; 

 salinity tabulations, 39 



Woosley, John B., v 



World production, sea and land, 301, 363; by 

 principal countries and regions (chart) 369; 

 portion supplied by herring family, (table) 

 370 



Worth, S. G., striped bass, size, 120; number 

 of eggs, 121 



Yeast, protein production, cost, compared with 

 fish, 303-04 



