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VI. Preparation, care, and manufacture of fishery products.........--..... 23 
Method of treatment intrepori.. 22 223.4) 5.22 b ces peta ane - Se eee 23 
Method of investigation (-\.-. 222-2524 eeseeele - cles - EE Paes 24 
Wall Economy, ofihe fishenleses sass siee eee eee ste cunttenrenaacese 24 
Method oftreatmentan Tepontiee-seaeaee rete ea eee eee 24 
A. Fishery capital and capitalists 25:22. ...-2.\-..%-seeseeenene. 24 
ib. uabor invthe fishenesmec ce. -eeeer see eee ea] aaa ee eerie 24 
Cy Commerce of the fisheriese=-eperesee eee assis eee eee eee 25 
Method ofinvesticationy os sccesteeeeer ere ee cere se ose eee Eee 25 
WilillesProtectiontand culture): 2. mse erin oso sener eee ee eee eee eee eee eee 25 
Method of'treatment in report. ---- .- 23 | se eetsere Seba sete be se eee 25 
Method of investigation... <2 ge eheeeeem anise iaee peeteree 26 
IAPPENDIX Ay soso ons bees ere pire meri ene eee eee eee ae coe 26 
Instructions for making out accounts ---------- -- eases dene cesecienne 26 
APPENDIX B......... FEROS Sa OOD COU Bob uan no Sood unatbo gasses Haoncedcen SoeGe ae 27 
Statistics of the fishery marine —_.- 225 225)2 joe bea yee Soe er 27 
Statistics of the fishing vessels of the United States ..........-.....-.---- 28 
Questions relative to the cod and the cod fisheries :.-...---.---....-...---. 29 
Questions relative to the mackerel and the mackerel fisheries -..........-. 34 
Questions relative to the alewife and the alewife fisheries. ...-.....-....-. 38 
Questions relative to the smelt and the smelt fisheries ..............-.---. 43 
APPENDIXGC (io .055)Sayeae ete Seine e Uaioe e ass Se nie ne eee eee oe «ar eel Ae eee 47 
List of seaboard counties, with statement of seaboard enone and post- 
offices within three miles of tide-water.-0- 20 selon ee ei feseieeelse 47 
U.S. COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES, AND CENSUS OF 1880. 
SPENCER F’. BAIRD, Commissioner of Fisheries. 
FRANCIS A. WALKER, Superintendent of Census. 
G. BROWN GOODE, Assistant in charge of Fishery Investigation. 
At the request of the Superintendent of the Census, the U. S. Com- 
mission of Fish and Fisheries has undertaken the task of preparing a 
report on the fishery industry of the United States, which will be printed 
as a part of the general report of the Superintendent of the Census of 
1880. The accompanying preliminary schedule has been prepared for 
the instruction of the assistants who shall take part in the investigation. 
It is arranged in the form of an analysis, and is intended to show the 
scope of the proposed investigation. It is necessarily far from complete; 
many of the headings might be expanded much more fully if it were 
thought necessary. The work of canvassing the fishing towns will be 
placed in the hands of trained investigators, who will be expected to 
devise methods of their own, suited to the field which they are working 
up. The headings are intended as suggestions. Every suggestion 
should be considered with reference to every community under investi- 
gation, and where there is an opportunity of gaining information upon 
any subject it should be followed up in as great detail as possible. In 
many cases, however, one or more classes of suggestions will be found 
inapplicable, and may be omitted. The scheme has been made as com- 
