6 INLAND FISHERIES. 



Fish. Lobsters. 



January 56 barrels 148 boxes. 



February 36 " 118 " 



March ; 48 " 147 " 



April 861 " 235 " 



May 5851 " 224 



June 506 " 419 



July » 339 " 576 



August 84 " 507 " 



September 342 " 136 



October 487 " 27 



November 304 " 50 



December 19 " 63 



8933 " 2650 " 

 To this must be added the amount shipped 



in fish steamers 3345 ' ' 



Making total of fish 12,278 



These figures do not include all the fish shipped. Quite a number of 

 barrels were sent to Providence ; besides, we have no account of what 

 went over the Stonington Road. 



From one-half to three-fifths of these fish are scup ; the balance com- 

 prise all the varieties of edible fish found in our waters. 



MACKEREL 



Have not favored us with their presence in large numbers. 



September 23d they put in their appearance and several hundred 

 barrels were taken ; but they soon left us under sealed orders, as sud- 

 denly as they came, while their smaller relatives, the " little mackerel," 

 remained with us in good numbers for a long time. 



HORSE MACKEREL. 



The late Professor S. F. Baird, in his report for 1871 and 1872, 

 under the head of " Natural History of Important Food Fishes," gives 

 us a very valuable paper upon this fish. And it is so replete with in- 



