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   Communication 
  from 
  the 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Fisheries 
  to 
  the 
  Secretary 
  of 
  

  

  Commerce 
  5 
  

  

  I/etter 
  from 
  Bureau 
  committee 
  to 
  the 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Fisheries 
  11 
  

  

  Introduction 
  13 
  

  

  The 
  American 
  bank 
  fisheries 
  14 
  

  

  General 
  considerations 
  14 
  

  

  Hand-line 
  and 
  trawl-line 
  vessels 
  15 
  

  

  Otter-trawl 
  vessels 
  19 
  

  

  Fishing 
  banks 
  of 
  western 
  North 
  Atlantic 
  22 
  

  

  Comparison 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  by 
  otter-trawl 
  and 
  trawl-line 
  vessels 
  24 
  

  

  Waste 
  from 
  marketing 
  small 
  fishes 
  28 
  

  

  Edible 
  fishes 
  wasted 
  and 
  new 
  kinds 
  marketed 
  30 
  

  

  Fluctuations 
  in 
  the 
  catch 
  and 
  evidences 
  of 
  impoverishment 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  fishery 
  31 
  

  

  Denudation 
  of 
  the 
  bottom 
  by 
  otter 
  trawlers 
  43 
  

  

  Destruction 
  of 
  spawn 
  by 
  otter 
  trawlers 
  48 
  

  

  Interference 
  of 
  the 
  otter 
  trawl 
  with 
  other 
  fisheries 
  48 
  

  

  General 
  economic 
  and 
  sociological 
  questions 
  49 
  

  

  Effects 
  of 
  otter 
  trawling 
  on 
  the 
  price 
  of 
  fish 
  50 
  

  

  Insufiiciency 
  of 
  data 
  55 
  

  

  Minor 
  American 
  trawlnet 
  fisheries 
  56 
  

  

  Cape 
  Cod 
  fiounder 
  fishery 
  56 
  

  

  San 
  Francisco 
  paranzella 
  fishery 
  57 
  

  

  Demersal 
  fisheries 
  of 
  England 
  and 
  Wales 
  i 
  57 
  

  

  Introduction 
  57 
  

  

  Fishing 
  regions 
  58 
  

  

  Fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  Sea 
  60 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  conditions 
  in 
  the 
  North 
  Sea 
  68 
  

  

  Iceland 
  . 
  69 
  

  

  White 
  Sea 
  72 
  

  

  Faroe 
  74 
  

  

  Demersal 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Scotland 
  76 
  

  

  Fishing 
  regions 
  76 
  

  

  Fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  east 
  coast 
  76 
  

  

  The 
  catch 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  76 
  

  

  Steam 
  trawlers 
  79 
  

  

  Scotch 
  line 
  fisheries 
  86 
  

  

  Changes 
  in 
  the 
  unclassified 
  fishes 
  . 
  88 
  

  

  Summary, 
  east 
  coast 
  of 
  Scotland 
  89 
  

  

  Sunmiary 
  and 
  conclusions 
  90 
  

  

  Recommendations 
  94 
  

  

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