544 



INDEX 



Currents, continued 

 scallops, 172. See also Antilles Current, 

 Florida Current, Gulf Stream System 

 Currituck County, blue crabs in, 210-212, 



(table) 214. See Counties, coastal, N. C. 

 Currituck Sound, area and volume of, 3; de- 

 scription of, 5 ; drainage into, 41 ; salinity, 

 46; white perch in, 133 

 Curves, goods, 384-88; money, 388, 389 

 Cuspate shoreline, theory of, 17-21; (chart) 20 

 Cycles, of abundance, 80; economic, and fish 

 production. United States, 383-90; Canada, 

 384, 387, 389; prices, fish and animal prod- 

 ucts, (table) 394; over-all effect of, on 

 fisheries industry, (table) 396. See Fluctua- 

 tions 



Dailey, R. B., fog data, Hatteras, 60 



Dall, William Healey, species, of hard clams, 

 160; of scallops, 169; scallops, range, 169 



Dalton, Carter, ix 



Daly, Reginald A., Carolina cusps (chart), 20 



Dare County, blue crabs in, 210, 212, (table) 

 214. See Counties, coastal, N. C. 



"Deep-freeze" cabinets, 350 



Delaware Bay, oysters, 143, 157; squid, 184 



DeLoach, properties of agar, 247 



Delta, tidal, 6. See Ocracoke Inlet 



Demand, reaction of, on prices and production, 

 318; per capita, for food, 328, ff. 



Density, North Carolina waters, 44 



Department of Conservation and Develop- 

 ment, N. C, vi; developing inlets, 52 



Depletion. See Overfishing 



Determinants, of fish production, 388-94; in 

 dietary, 349; of numbers of fishermen, 307, 



319, 394-95 



Diamond-back terrapin, history of, 219-23; 

 distribution of, 219-20; market for, 220-22; 

 farm, Beaufort, N. C, 222; kinds of, 223- 

 24; hybrid, 224; propagation of, experi- 

 mental, 225; natural history of, 226-29 



Diamond Shoals, 9; lightship, currents at, 

 (chart) 16, 17, (table) 18; Florida current, 

 influence of, at, 21; temperatures at, 23, 

 (chart) 28; salinity records of, 38; blue 

 marlin at, 255; as a fishing ground, 258-59 



Dietary constituents. Recommended Daily Al- 

 lowances, National Research Council, 333, 

 364; pattern, regional and national, 336; 

 gross composition of, 337; determinants of, 



349 



Discharge, from rivers, various. North Caro- 

 lina, 39-44, (chart) 42 



Dismal Swamp, 5 



Distributor-dealers, North Carolina, 452-54 



Division of Commercial Fisheries, North Caro- 

 lina, 153 



Division of Water Resources of the North 

 Carolina Department of Conservation and 

 Development, 52 



Dolphin (Coryphaena hippurus), angling for, 



271 

 Doxsee, J. H., hard clam, industrial enterprise, 



166, 167 

 Drainage areas. See Areas 

 Drew, Oilman Arthur, sea scallop, 177 

 Duke University Marine Station, 245 

 Duncan, Charles, Beaufort terrapin farm, 222 



Earll, R. Edward, menhaden, 89; bluefish, 118 

 Economic behavior patterns, various fishes, 



404-15. See Behavior, economic 

 Edwards, Margaret, ix; 292; 448 

 Eel grass, relation to scallop, 170, 172, 173; to 



soft shell clams, 179 

 Efficiency, improvements in, effect on fisher- 

 men, 395-96 

 Effort, fishery, economic distribution of, 319 

 Eimeria brevoortia, parasite of menhaden, 99 

 Elizabeth City, Public Utility Commission, 46 

 Ellison, William A., Jr., wreck charts, 256 

 Engels, W. L., describes Ocracoke Island, 50 

 English Channel, productivity, 364 

 Esthetic characteristics, of fish, effects of, 339 

 Etheridge, Mr., early menhaden enterprise, 90 

 Ethridge, R. Bruce, vi 

 Euphausiids, 103 

 Europe, northwestern, fish production, (chart) 



387; percentage of world, 369 

 Evaporation from sounds, 11 

 Excelsior Guano Co., early menhaden plant, 



Portsmouth Island, 89 

 Exchange value, fish, for other commodities 



and foods, 381-82, (table) 383; 420 

 Executive Committee, University of North 



Carolina, trustees, vii 

 "Extent of Stream Pollution in North Caro- 

 lina, The," 58 



FAO. See Food and Agriculture Organization, 

 United Nations 



Farmers' share in retail value, compared to 

 fishermen's, 344-47, (tables) 344, 347, 

 (chart) 346 



Farming, efficiency of, 301-03, 308-09; mecha- 

 nization of, 309 



Fathometer, 310 



Fear, Cape, 55 



Fertility of sea water. See Nutrients 



Fertilization of natural waters, 68 



Fertilizer, menhaden as a source of, 85, 86, 

 88; consumed. United States, 301; from 

 fish, manufacture of, 358-60; production, 

 statistics. Appendix table No. 62 ; elements, 

 in fish and sea water, 367 



Fiedler,- R. H., hard clam in Florida, 161; 

 markets in inland cities, 347 



Fiedler and Matthews, markets in inland 

 cities, 347 



Field, Irving A., sea mussels, 182 



