114 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



b6ats. 



Duckiug-boats. 



25658. Egg Harbor boat. (Model; scale, 1 inch to the foot. P. Brasher, 

 New York City. 

 Used for huutiug iu marshes aud bays. 

 26623. New Jersey sueak-box. (Model; scale, 1 inch to the foot. ) JohnD. 

 Gifford, Tuckertou, N. J. 

 These boats are from twelve to fourteen feet in length; the shelving or 

 sideboards on the stern of the boat are used to hold the decoys while the 

 hunter rows to and from the shooting ground. Used by gunners on Bar- 

 negat and Little Egg Harbor Bays, New Jersey. 



Oat-rigged fisliing-boats. 



12099. Bay of Fundy cat-boat. (Model; scale, ^ inch to the foot.) Captain 

 Hallet, Eastport, Me. 

 Used in herring fisheries. 

 25026. Martha's Vineyard cat-boat. (Model; scale, i inch to the foot.) 

 William H. Chase. 

 Used in coast fisheries. 

 29537. Providence Eiver cat-boat. (Model.) J. M. K. Sonthwick, New- 

 port, K. I. 

 These boats A'ary in length from 14 to 19| feet, and cost from $225 to 

 $425. Used in lobster fisheries and hook and line fisheries. Built by J. 

 U. Stoddard. 

 26585. Two-masted cat-ljoat. (Model; scale, about ^ inch to the foot.) 

 Johnson & Young, Boston, Mass. 



Used iu New England lobster fisheries. 

 39314. Grand Bank cod-fishing schooner " Mayor Eogers." (Model 43 inches 

 long.) U. S. Fish Commission. 



Sails set, as on a passage to the Banks. 



Schooner-rigged fisliiug- vessels. 



39197. Gloucester George's Bank fishing schooner. (Model.) (S. Elwell.) 



U. S. Fish Commission. 

 26809. Noank lobster-boat. (Model.) Capt. H. C. Chester, Noank, Conn. 

 25825. Block Island boat. (Model ; scale, i inch to the foot.) Capt. H. C. 



Chester. 

 Used in cod fisheries and shore fisheries. 



25730. Massachusetts schooner-smack. (Model; scale, ^ inch to the foot.) 



William H. Chase, Boston, Mass. 

 Used in mackerel fisheries and winter oyster trade. 



25731. Maine schooner-smack. (Model; scale J inch to the foot.) Capt. 



H. C. Chester. 



Used in Bank cod fisheries and Eastern mackerel fisheries. 

 26536. Oyster-schooner. (Model; scale, 1 inch to the foot.) T.B.Ferguson, 

 Maryland Fish Commission. 



Used in oyster-dredging iu Chesapeake Bay. 

 26584. Schooner-smack. (Model; scale, about ^ inch to the foot.) Johnson 

 &. Young, Boston, Mass. 

 Employed in the New England lobster fisheries. 

 25727. Noank well-smack. (Model; scale, | inch to the foot.) H. C. Ches- 

 ter, Noank, Conn. 



Supplies fresh fish to local markets and New York iced-fish trade. 



