FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 167 



RESULTS OF WOEK. 



1. Publications of the Commission — Continuert. 



XI. statistics of fish and fisheries on the south shore of Tage. 



Xew Enj:hmtl 1"3 



Table I. Amount of fish taken at Menemshaw Bight, 



Martha's Vineyard 173 



Table II. General return of the AVaquoit weir for 



18-1 174 



Table III. lieturn of doji-fish and blue-fish, at Wa- 



quoit weir, for seven years 175 



Table IV. Consolidated returns of alewives, shad, 

 menhaden, bass, blue-fish, and doj;- 

 fish, at "Waquoit wier, for thirteen 



years 176 



Table VI. Account of blue-flsh caught with a line, by 

 Josiah C. Pease, about Edgartown, 



Ma.ss., 1865-71 : 177 



Table VII; Account of fis!. I.;nded, at Baxter's 



wharf, Ilyar.u's, in 1870 and 1871... 178 



Table VIII. Account of .Vustin Taylor, Hyannis, for 



1870-1871 178 



Table IX. Account of Timothy Crooker, Hyannis, 



for 18G7-1871 179 



Table X. Account of J. G. Loring, Hyannis. 1867- 



1871 179 



Table XI. Shii)ment of fish by railroad from Hyan- 

 nis, monthly, to New York. 1866, 



1871 '. 179 



Table XII. Statement of fish caught at Wood's Hole, 



Mass.. inl872 180 



Table XIII. Catch of fish at "West Falmouth Pound. 181 



Table XIV. Date of first appearance of fish at the 

 pounds and weirs on the south 



side of New England 181 



XU. Supplementary testimony and information relative to 

 the condition of the fisheries on the 

 south side of New England in 1872. 182 



Notes taken by the Commissioner 183 



Newport, Khode Island 183 



Wood's Hole, Mass 183 



New York 186 



Report of Vinal N. Edwards 187 



Nantucket 187 



Edgai-toM u 188 



Hyannis ^^^ 



Martha's Vineyard 191 



Lamherst Cove 1"! 



Vineyard Haven 192 



Additional notes taken by the Commissioner 193 



Xm. Pleadings before the senate committee on fisheries of 

 the lihodo Island legislature, at its 



January session of 1872 196 



Arguments of .1. Talbot Pitman in favor of a law 

 prohibiting the use of traps and 



pounds in Bhode Island 196 



Abstract of an address, by Capt. Nathaniel E. At- 



wood, in oi)position to legislation.. 223 

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

 flshos of the south .shore of New Eng- 

 land 



I. The scup. 

 II. The blue-fish. 

 XV. Description of apparatus used in capturing fish on 

 the sea coast and lakes of the United 

 States :» " 



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