REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XLV 



employed, etc: (A) Preservation of Live Fish ; (B) Eefrigeration; (C) 

 Suu-drying; (D) Smoke-drying; (E) Pickling; (F) Hermetically Can- 

 ning; (G) Fnr Dressing; (H) Whalebone Preparation; (I) Isinglass 

 Mannfactnre ; (K) Ambergris Manufacture; (L) Fish Guano Manufact- 

 ure ; (M) Oil Eendering, etc. 



VII.— ECONOMY OF THE FISHERIES. 



Here were to be studied (A) Financial Organization and Methods ; 

 (B) Insurance; (C) Labor and Capital; (D) Markets and Market Prices; 

 (E) Lines of Traffic ; (F) Exports, Imx^orts, and Duties. 



The fishery industry is of such great importance, and is undergoing 

 such constant changes, that a visit of a few days or weeks to any 

 locality, even by the most competent experts, has invariably proved 

 unsatisfactory. We have therefore been able to collect only the most 

 important facts, selected with special reference to the needs of the re- 

 port in contemplation, leaving many subjects of interest untouched. 



The field-work and the correspondence in connection with it were, 

 carried on by the following-named special agents, and approximately 

 between the dates below mentioned : 



I. Coast of Maine, east of Portland : Mr. P. B. Earll and Capt. J. W. 

 Collins, August 1 to October 31, 1879 ; July 29 to October 20, 1880 ; 

 January 1, 1881 to January 1, 1883. 



II. Portland to Plymouth (except Cape Ann) and eastern side of 

 Buzzard's Bay: Mr. W. A. Wilcox, September 2, 1879, to March 1, 1881. 



HI. Cape Ann : Mr. A. Howard Clark, September 1, 1879 to Novem- 

 ber 1, 1880; July, August, and September, 1883. 



IV. Cape Cod: Mr. F. W. True, July 1 to October 1, 1879 ; Septem- 

 ber 1 to October 31, 1880; Mr. Vinal N. Edw^irds, October 1, 1.-80, to 

 July 31, 1882. 



V. Provincetown : Capt. N. E. Atwood, August 1, 1879, to August 

 1, 1880. 



VI. Ehode Island and Connecticut, west to the Connecticut River: 

 Mr. Ludwig Kumlien, August 16 to October 10, 1880. 



VII. Long Island and north shore of Long Island Sound and west 

 to Sandy Hook: Mr. Fred Mather, August 1, 1879, to July 1, 1881. 



VIII. New York City: Mr. Barnet Phillips, January 1, 1880, to July 

 1, 1881. 



IX. Coast of New Jersey : Mr. R. E. Earll, December, 1880. 



X. Philadelphia : Mr. Chas. W. Smiley and Mr. W. V. Cox, Novem- 

 ber, 1880. 



XL Coast of Delaware : Capt. J. W. Collins, December, 1880. 



XII. Baltimore and the Oyster Industry of Maryland: Mr. E. H. 

 Edmonds, October 1, 1879, to October 1, 1880. 



XIII. Atlantic coast of Southern States : Mr. E. E. Earll, January 

 1 to July 25, 1880. 



XIV. Mexican Gulf coast : Mr. Silas Steai-ns, August, 1879, to July, 

 1880. 



