776 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



[Draught of law for legislative protection of fish, by the Commis- 

 sioner. — fol., bill-form, 6 pp.] 



United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. | — | Parti. [ — | 

 Eeport I on the | condition of the sea-fisheries | of the j south 

 coast of New England | in | 1871 and 1872. | Ey | Spencer F, 

 Baird, | Commissioner. | — | With supplementary papers. | — | 

 Washington: | Government Printing-Ofldce. | 1873. j [8vo, xlvii, 

 852 pp., 40 pi., with 38 1. explanatory (to pi. 1-38), 1 folded map.J 



I. Keport of the Commissioner, [S. F. Baird.] pp vii-xlvii.* 



II. General plan of inquiries prosecuted. [1. Memoranda of 

 inquiry relative to the food-fishes of the United States. 2. 

 Questions relative to the food-fishes of the United States.] 

 pp. 1-6. 



III. Testimony in regard to the present condition of the fish- 

 eries, taken in 1871. i)p. 7-72. 



IV. Special arguments in regard to regulating the sea-fisheries 

 by law. pp. 73-103. 



V. Reports of State commissions in regard to regulating the 

 sea-fisheries by law. pp. 104-124. 



VI. Report of conference of the United States Commissioner 

 with commissioners of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, held 

 October 5, 1871. pp. 125-131. 



VII. Draught of law proposed for the consideration of, and 

 enactment by, the legislatures of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 

 and Connecticut, pp. 132-134. 



VIII. Miscellaneous correspondence and communications on 

 the subject of the sea-fisheries, pp. 135-138. 



IX. European authorities on the subject of regulating the fish- 

 eries by law. pp. 139-148. 



X. Notices in regard to the abundance of fish on the New 

 England coast in former times, pp. 149-172. 



XI. Statistics of fish and fisheries on the south shore of New 

 England, pp. 173-181. 



XII. Supplementary testimony and information relative to the 

 condition of the fisheries of the south side of New England, 

 taken in 1872. pp. 182-195. 



XIII. Pleadings before the senate committee on fisheries, of 

 the Rhode Island legislature, at its January session of 1872. 

 pp. 196-227. 



XIV. Natural history of some of the more important food-fishes 

 of the south shore of New England [viz : the scup {Steno- 

 tomus argyrops) and the blue-fish [Pomatomus saltatrix)]. pp. 

 228-252. 



XV. Description of apparatus used in capturing fish on the 



* Tbis portion, with the ft'eneral title-page, (pp. i-xlvii,) was issued iu uclvauce 

 separately. 



