[437] REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 627 



Kewbnr3rport fishery, 1863 283 



fleet, 1800 273 



fleet, past anil present, 1873 324 



vessels in Saint Lawrence 



Gnlf,1853. 257 



vessels, small nnmber en- 

 gaged in the Southern 



fishery, 1870 309 



Newcomb, Capt. Darius 52 



New England coast, large school off, 1877. 337 



New England fishery, 1856 201 



number of vessels 



in the bay, 1878. . 337, 338 



review of the, 1878 . . 344 



1679. . 348 



1880.. 351,352 



1881 . 053 



fleet, 1879-'80-'81 . . 206, 208 



sonth coast of 83 



New England vessels, big catches by .1876 336, 337 



New Enterprise S39, 340 



Newfoundland 12, 39 



New London 54 



Newport, good catch off, 1875 320 



Harbor 342 



large catch at, 1875 330 



large haul at, 1875 330 



New York 114,339 



Night fishing, introduction of, 1837-1841 . . 230 

 a new feature in the mack- 

 erel fishery, 1841 235 



Neman's Land 33, 34, 294 



North American fishery, products for 1880 . 127-131 



North Cape 22,46,341 



Northern limit 3 



Norton, B. H 240 



Norway, coast of 25, 340 



Notre Dame, Bay of 46 



Nova Scotia 12 



big catch off, 1851 248 



1877 333 



eastern coast of 83 



fisheries, 1839-1846 240 



schooner bound south, the 



tables turned, 1877 .'.. 833 



Western, mackerel in 1853. 254 



Numbers, fluctuations in 37, 38, 42 



Oakes,Elisha M 219 



Capt. W. H 78 



Olsen, Captain 7 



Ommastrephes Ulecebrosa 28 



Orphan Bank 46, 82, 245, 294, 298 



Otta.wa 301 



Overfishing destroying the fishery, 1838. . 233 



Packard, Dr 33 



Professor 3 



Packing, cost, and quantity of salt needed. 140,142 



Parsons, Capt. John 115,220 



Passing Cape Cod, 1875 330 



Pate, Captain 82 



Pelagic fish 12 



Penobscot Bay 25,128 



Perley, Mr 4,12,111,254 



PettingeU, Mr. Moses 42 



Page. 

 Petition for the repeal of the law provid- 

 ing for an inspector-general of fish 156-160 



Phalarqpes 17 



Pharo, Mr. Edward 132 



Philadelphia 114 



Phillips, Mr. Bamet 5 



Phosphorescence lOD 



Pictou (iSTova Scotia) 249 



Pierce, MUes 80 



Pigeon -hUl ground 82 



Platyonichus oceUatus 15 



Pleasant Bay 326 



Plenty off Newburyport, 1858 264 



i-eported at Western Nova Scotia, 



1852 250 



Plows 100-102 



Pocket or spfller 71-73 



Poey 10 



Pbgies 79 



Pollock 17 



Pool, Captain 251,252 



Porpoises 28 



Port-au-Port 82 



Portland 25, 83, 245, 345 



Portsmouth and Gloucester Harbors, big 



schools in, 1837 230 



faU fishery, 1837 231 



Prices 26 



1827 225 



1836 238 



1850 246 



1852 250 



1859..... 270,271,272 



18*15 286,287 



1866 290,291 



18C8 303 



1869 306,307 



1873 322 



advance in, 1861 279 



1866 292 



in Boston market, 1804-1832 218 



of canned mackerel 135 



enhanced by the demand for ship- 

 ment to California and Australia, 



1857 262 



for fresh mackerel. New York, 1870 . 312 



in Massachusetts, 1830-1881 210 



Prince Edward Island 22, 23, 33, 



245, 247, 257, 261, 263, 267, 280, 282, 284, 

 287, 288, 294, 295, 299, 309, 326, 340, 347 



Proctor, Mr. J. 89,158 



Profitable shore fishing, 1870 310 



Prospect, Upper 333 



Provincetown 7, 26, 28, 239, 248 



fisheries, 187e-1886, inclu- 

 sive 331 



fishery, 1872 320 



Harbor 10, 269, 276 



Pi'ussia (Eastern) 4 



Pteropwla 20,21 



Purse-seine, attempted use of, in Norwe- 

 gian waters 80 



bi<,' catches with, 1865 286 



big haul in a, 1866 291 



