390 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



55. Boston. 



56. Used for painting and for currying leather. 



57. Forty and fifty cents per gallon in 1873. 



58. Does not appear to. 



11. Statement of Chandler Martin, Tceeper of Whales-BacJc Light, Whales 

 Back, N. H. — February 23, 1874, and January 9, 1875. 



1. Pogy. 



2. Most numerous, excepting herring. 



3. More abundant in 1874 than for ten years previous. 



5. Does not on this coast. 



6. From the first of May until the middle of July. The first are gen- 

 erally the smallest. 



7. High; they make a ripple and attract birds. 



8. Along the shore from the coast of Massachusetts to the coast of 

 Maine. 



9. Eegular, but more numerous some seasons than others. 



10. Nets and seines keep them out of the harbors. 



11. Go with the tide. 



12. Bays and harbors with strong tides. 



13. Shallow. From 4 to 10 fathoms. 



14. It does. 



15. They are full grown when they visit this coast. 

 10. They are not. 



17. They leave in a body from the first to the middle of October. 



18. As they came, along the shore. 

 29. No. . 



34. Gill-nets and seines, 



35. Gill or float nets are six yards deep and forty yards long. Seines 

 are of different lengths. 



12. Statement of Thomas Day, keei^er of Seguim Light, ParJier^s Head, Me. 



1. Pogy. 



3. In my opinion they are diminishing. 



G. The first school gets on the coast of Maine about the middle of 

 Miiy ; the second about the middle of June. 



8. These first go and come the same way as the mackerel. 



10. Yes, seines tend to drive them from off the coast. There is a fine 

 of $50 for throwing a seine within three miles of the shore ; but this is 

 willingly paid when they can take 1,000 barrels offish in a few hours. 



34. Gill-nets and seines and in weirs. 



35. Seines are 1,500 feet long and 80 feet deep. 



30. There are at present about 75 small steamers besides many sail- 

 ing- vessels. 



