[19] PLAN OF INQUIRY FOR FISHERY CENSUS. 21 
BAITS. 
The whole question of bait, its obtaining, its preservation, and its 
use. 
. OYSTER AND CLAM FISHERY. 
. Are there oyster or clam banks in the vicinity? 
. Have there ever been any? 
. Mark their locations on the chart. 
. How many men are employed in this fishery? 
. How many boats? 
. What disposition is made of them, &c.? 
. Describe boats and implements in use. 
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B.—Manufacture and trade in the apparatus of the fisheries. 
Boat factories. 
Ship yards. (Source of lumber.) 
Marine railways. Spar yards. 
Rigging and sail lofts. 
Anchor foundries. 
Ship and boat fitting factories. 
Canvas factories. 
Cordage factories. 
Line and net factories. 
Hook factories. 
Shipsmiths. 
Block factories. 
Manufacture of rubber boots, &c. 
Manufacture of oil-clothing. 
For each of these classes of articles the following facts should be 
noted: 
Location of each factory. 
Centers of consumption and drift of trade. 
Capital invested. . 
Men employed. 
In case only part of the articles manufactured are consumed in the 
fisheries, a proportionate estimate should be obtained. 
The salt trade, its statistics and history. Early manufacture of salt 
for use in the fisheries. History. 
Search should be made for any traces of ancient salt-works. 
C.—Methods of the fishery. 
Under this head should be described in detail the methods at the 
present time employed in the various branches of the fishery, with de- 
tailed accounts of the peculiar apparatus employed and the manner of 
