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and will doubtless furnish America with a larger 

 and larger proportion of her fish and other marine 

 products. The principal species caught on these 

 grounds are herring, halibut, and cod. 



America is especially fortunate in possessing the 

 world's finest coastal fisheries. The Atlantic coastal 

 waters from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida are 

 excellent fishing grounds. The Bay of Fundy yields 

 immense quantities of mature herring for smoking 

 and salting and small herring for sardines. Large 

 numbers of whiting, mackerel, shad, smelt, scup, 

 flounders, and alewives are taken along the New 

 England coast. The Middle Atlantic States yield 

 a great variety of fishes, the more important being 

 alewives, bluefish, butter-fish, croaker, flounder, 

 menhaden, scup, shad, squeteagues, and whiting. 

 The Chesapeake Bay is an especially fine fishing 

 ground, in which large quantities of menhaden, 

 croaker, squeteague, alewives, and shad are cap- 

 tured. These fishes are also caught as far south 

 along the coast as Florida. Many bluefish, cat- 

 fish, Spanish mackerel, and spot are also caught 

 in the coastal waters of the South Atlantic States. 

 The Gulf of Mexico supports an extensive fishery 

 yielding drum, grouper, menhaden, mullet, sharks, 

 sheepshead, Spanish mackerel, red snapper, and 

 squeteague in astonishing numbers. The fishes 

 caught along the coasts of California, Oregon, and 

 Washington include bonito, tuna, mackerel, floun- 

 der, pilchard, rock-bass, salmon, smelt, and sque- 

 teague. In southern California such large quantities 



