INDEX. 



Tage. 



Abundance of fishes, former 21,61 



Acanthias 149, 150 



americanus 52, 65 



Acetic acid as a preservative 178 



Acipenser brevirostris 31 



oxyrhynchus 31 



Actason puncto-striata 38 



Adams, Dr. A. Leith 71 



Advantages of the sea fisheries 19 



Agassiz, Prof. Alexander, on spawning . . . 82 



Air-bladders utilized 148 



Albicore 27 



Alcidse (it 



Alcyonium digitatum 122 



Alewife fisheries regulated 157, 159, 160 



Alewives 31 



anadronious 49 



as bait 126,127,206 



catch in Potomac 22, 167 



decrease of 21, 167, 203, 204, 206 



exportation suggested 162 



statistics of 215 



All-eyes, food for mackerel 79,183 



Alligators, destructiveness 64 



Allurements for fishes 124 



Alosa sapidissima 30,43 



Alutera scbeepfii 35 



Ambrose, referred to 46 



American fisheries, review of 142 



Ammodytes j.43 65,128 



americanus 29 



lancea 114 



Ampelisca 35, 37, 41 



Amphidesma cequalis 37 



Amphipods, food for fishes 35,37,39,41,42 



Amphisphyra pellucida 36 



Anadronious fishes 49, 82 



attract other species. 166,201 



decrease of 166 



Anarrhichas 139 



lupus 39 



Anatina papy racea 37 



Anchovies 31 



food for fishes 39 



imported 149 



Angel-fish 29 



Angler, food of 35 



Anguilla bostoniensis 31, 41 



Angulus tener 35 



Animal matter, chief food of fishes 75 



used as bait 125, 12C 



Annelids, food for fishes 33, 36, 38, 41, 42, 43 



Anonyx 39 



Antennarius 84 



Anticosti Island, halibut ground 101 



Architenthis harveyi 31 



Archosargus probatocephalus 28 



Arctic dab 25 



Arenicola piscatorum 113 



Argina pexata 34, 39 



Artificial propagation 60, 162, 163, 191, 197 



Artimon Bank 95 



Ascidians as bait 34 



food for fishes 40 



Aseptin, used as a preservative 137 



Ashby, jr., Capt. Benj 16 



Astarte mactracea 37 



undata 34 



Astyris zonalis 38 



Atherina 83 



Atherinidai 29 



Atwood, Capt. Nathaniel E.. ..16, 110, 119, 203, 210 

 Auks, eating fish 04 



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Baars, Hermann, cited 20,48,2^19 



Babson, Fit/. J 16 



Bait-fishes, list of 25 



Bait for fishes 124, 126,147, 177 



preservation of 129, 130, 133, 146, 177, 179 



Balanus crenatus 



Ballast used on fishing- vessels 



Banks for fishing, list of 



Banquereau 



Barker, Prof. Geo. F., cited 



Barnacles, food for. fishes 



Bass 



as food 



deep-sea fish 



packed in oil 



Batrachus tan % 



Bay of Chaleurs, abundance of salmon. 

 Bay of Fundy, temperature. 



39 



105 



58 



94 



153 



39 



28 



28 



52 



146 



39,83 



60 



56 



Beam-trawl, description and use 83, 121, 122 



Belone longirostris 30 



Belugas, destructive to salmon and cod.. 60 



Bennet, Thomas, statements by 168 



Bergne, J. H. G ' 15 



Bertram, cited 82 



Billfish 27,30 



Biographical notices of species 45 



Biology of fishes 16, 24 



Birds destructive to fish 63 



used as bait 125, 177 



Bittium nigrum 40 



Black bass 28 



food of 42 



planted in Potomac 197 



Black perch. 28 



Blacklish 26,28 



food of 39,58 



utilizing 190 



Blackford, Eugene G 135, 145, 179, 196 



Blanchere, de la, cited 129 



Block Island, temperature 55, 56 



Blue-backed trout 53 



Bluefish 29 



* abundance of 13, 61, 191 



decrease or disappearance. .48, 66, 188, 191 



destructiveness of. 42, 58,' 59. 63. 65, 66, 77,78 



160, 174, 188, 190 



food for fishes 35,41,44,59 



method of capture 184, 206 



movements of 47,53,191,202 



statistics of 215 



value as food-fish 187 



utilized 68 



Boats used in fisheries 107 



Boeck, Prof. A 24 



Boltenia bolteni 34 



Bouitos 27,40.47,53,187 



food for sharks 44 



statistics of . .. 215 



Borax as a preservative 137, 144, 17.s 



Bottom fishes 53 



Bottom-ice destructive to fishes 69 



Bow and arrow used in fishiug 108 



Brackett, E. A., hatching-box bv 163 



BradelleBank .* 99 



Bream 26,28 



Brevoort, J. Carson 69 



Brevoortia tyrannus 30, 43, 44 



Brittle-stars, food for fishes 34, 36 



49 

 26 

 150 

 *6 

 40 



Brook trout . 



Brusmius brosme 



vulgaris 



Brown's Bank 



Bryozoaus, food for fishes. 



217 



