XVI.-REPORT UPON THE PROTECTION WHirH SHmiin du 

 GIVEN BY LAW TO THE FISHERIES OF THE SntoSl^ 



By Marshall McDonald. 



In pursuauce of Senate resolution of July 26, 188a, directintr "a. ^,,1, 

 committee of the Oommittee on Foreign Lla'tions.'corsis n^, of Mr' 

 Laphamccbairman), Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Miller of California Mr Wi,'' 

 do,u, and Mr. Morgau, in conjunction with the Cou,u,issi„u o fLu ™ I 

 Fisheries, to examine into the subject of the protection to be given by 



ak bill No 1833, first session Porty-seventh Congress," you were please<l 

 to designate me to act as the representative of the Commission n^e 

 mvestigations conducted by the committee during the summer of 1.883 

 and to direct that I should hold myself in readiness to accompany fte 

 committee and assist in the conduct of the investigation authodll 



Accordingly, in response to the request of the chairman Mr L-in 

 ?r;„ T;'*' *" '™ '^' Washington July 10, 1883, and ac ompat d 

 itlarr' r ■" f .'"^-^^S-'io" -^ "^^ ^^st and oo;an fisheries of the 

 Atlaut c sea.board trom the capes of the Delaware to Portland Me 



Sessions of the committee were held at Cape MayrW B Inch 

 Berk ey Arms, Coney Island, New York, Boston, and Portland Me' 

 A voluminous mass of testimony was accumulated which, bein<. d awn 

 from witnesses representing each of the interests engag;d1nrhefls™ 

 P eTatroroTth' "'''Tr"' -"'^'"'-'"y opiuionVopposite inte . 

 rnvMualLd t r," "''""'' '"'"'' S^^'^^'^'iz.tion,, base<I upon in- 

 T^J^TinLl- '""""/''T- Tbis testimony has been printed in 

 aocZell *""'"'*""" """ '"« '*1""-' of the committee, as a Senate 



ft Portland the committee adjourned to meet at Old Point Va sub 

 ject to the call of the chairmau. ' ' 



to the call of the chairman, and held several sessions there and at 

 Cherrystone, which is the center of the numerous ,«>und.„et fisheries 

 aL l!;>r'r;i' '"T °^ C^o^apeake Bay. An interesting session was 

 also held at the ertensive menha*Ieu factory of Darling & Smithers, on 



flepi .^ 'k 5'T- '^^'' ''™"' ^"'"S ""^ ■endezvous of the largo 

 fleet of menhaden flshing-vessels in the employment of the factory, we 



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