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FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



EESULTS OF WORK. 



1. Piiblicatioiis of the Coinmissiou — Coutiiiued. 



in. Testimony, &c., taken in 1871 — Continued. Page. 



Xauslion Island. Massachusetts 32: 



Pasque Island. Massachusetts 34 



Menemsha Bislit. Martha's Vineyard 35- 



Edgartowu, Marthas Vinej'ard 37 



Xantucket, Massachusetts 41 



llyannis, Mas.sachusetts 47 



Wood's Hole. Massachusetts 53 



Head of liuzzard's Bay.. 70- 



Cohasset Xairows 72 



rV. Special arguments in regard to regulating the sea- 



tisheries by law 73 



Samuel Powell, of Xewport, delivered in the llhode 

 Island legislature, (urging the ne- 

 cessity of a scientitic inquiry into 



1 ho subject) 73- 



J. M. K, Southwick, of Newport, (agaiu.st protect- 

 ive legislation) 76' 



George H. Palmer, of Xew Bedford. (In favor of pro- 

 tective legislation.) 88 



V. Keports of State commissions in regard to regulating 



the sea-fi.sheries by law 104 



Report of committee of Rhode Lsland legislature, 



made at Newport, June 15, 1870. .. 104 



Legislative enactment recommended llOi 



Extract from report for 1871 of Theodore Lyman, 

 Massachusetts commissioner of in- 

 land fisheries, on the possible ex- 

 haustion of sea-flsheries 112' 



Remarks of Mr. Atwood, of the cape district, be- 

 fore the Massachusetts senate, in re- 

 lation to the petition to prohibit net 



and seine ti.sheries IIT 



TT. Report of conference of the United States Commis- 

 sioner with the commissioners of 

 Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 



held October 5, 1871 125 



Vll. Draught of law proposed for the consideration of and 

 enactment by, the legislatures of 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and 



Connecticut 132' 



A bill to regulate the use of stationary apparatus in 



the capture of lish 132: 



'Vin. Mi.scellaneoiis correspondence and communications 



on the subject of the sea-fisheries 135' 



Letters 135- 



Copy of memorial of citizens of Hyannis, ad- 

 dressed to Congress, piaying that 

 laws may be passed prohibiting the 

 use of fixed apparatus for captur- 

 ing fish 137 



IX. European authorities on the subject of regulating the 



fisheries by law 139' 



On the fisheries of Naples, by Achille Costo 139- 



On the possibility of exhausting the sea-flsheries, 



by James G. Bertram 141 



Extract f lom London Field 144 



Extract from the report of the commissioners ap- 

 pointed to inquire into the sea-fish- 

 eries of the United Kingdom, pre- 

 sented to both houses of Parliament, 

 by command of Her Majesty 145 



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



England coast in former times 149 



