448 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



19. Somewhere south. 



20. Kind of very fine jelly fish ; they suck their food, for they have no 

 teeth. 



21. At the head of bays generally, at all times of the season. 



22. I think they are indiscriminately mixed as to male and female. 



23. 



No. 



24. Warm temperature. 



25. Near the bottom. 



20. They float in the water until hatched. 

 28. Are in abundance in the locality where they are hatched. 

 . 29. Yes, when nearly matured. 



30. All kinds of fish destroy them, except the parent. 



31. No. 



32. They do not suffer any when compared with the quantities of 

 them. 



33. No. 



34. Purse-nets. 



35. From 600 to 1,200 feet long, and 80 feet deep. 



30. Steamers, sloops, and schooners, from 10 to 100 tons each. 



37. About 12 men to each net, with 3 boats or sloops. 



38. All day,unless they load their boats sooner. 



39. No. 



40. Do not think it does. 



41. Fifty vessels, and 175 men. 



42. They are sent directly to the factories by the boats that follow the 

 net for that purpose. They are sometimes used as food, and are very 

 sweet, but bony. 



43. There are 10, owned by George F. Tuthill & Co., F. Price & Co., 

 1). \A>lls & Son., J. Preston & Co., Vail, Benjamin & Co., Hawkins 

 Bros., H. P. Green, B. C. Cartwright & Co., G. H. Payne, and Fithian & 

 Horton. 



44. Six hundred barrels of 40 gallons each. 



45. They could manufacture large quantities if they could get the 

 fish and have them fat. 



46. Boiler and engine, hydraulic presses, large tanks for cooking and 

 packing cost from $10,000 to $50,000. 



47. From $1 to $2 per barrel ; say $1.50 for the season. 



48. Two hundred fish are about an average for the season. 



49. Depends on fatness of fish ; it takes from 8,000 to 10,000 fish to 

 make 1 ton of scrap. 



50. Sometimes when very poor we cannot get over ^ gallon of oil, that 

 is in the spring and summer. 



51. When very fat 6 gallons can be taken from 1 barrel. 



52. Yes. 



53. The manufacture of oil from menhaden was started in this vicinity 

 about thirty years ago by Daniel D. Wells, who boiled them in large 



