[219] THE SEA FISHERIES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 221 



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Lunatia Iieros 33, 43, 44 



imraaculata 36 



Lyman, Theodore, supplied statistics 16 



MoKenzie, George, statements 168 



Mackerel 27,47,53,61 



as bait 90, 112, 126, 128, 177 



bait for 126,127 



canned 148 



compared with mullets 186, 198 



eggs, floating 183 



size and number 45, 82, 183 



fisheries, vessels used 106 



Ashing- grounds 102 



food for fishes. 40, 44, 59, 63, 65, 77,174, 208 



food of 40,58, 70, 79, 168, 183 



geographical distribution 181 



methods of capture .. . . . 184 



movements of .. .47, 102, 165, 168, 181, 202 



preparation for food 184 



product of Gloucester 142, 143 



roes, used as bait 126, 129 



season for 181 



spawning of 83, 84, 122, 182 



statistics of 20,22,215 



supposed hibernation 54, 182, 202 



Macroura 40 



Mactra solidissirua 131 



Madragues used in fisheries 123 



Magdalen Islands fishing-grounds 100 



Main Shoal 97 



Maintenance of fisheries 16, 151 



Male fish caring for egsjs 80,81 



Mallotus villosus 30, 53, 113 



Mammals destroying fish 62 



used as bait 125 



Man, influence on fishes .. .59, 66, 67, 77, 78, 130, 213 



Manatee, food of 73 



Marblehead Bank 89 



Margarita groinlandica 38 



obscura 38 



Martesia cuneiformis 37 



Mail in, Joseph, cited 50, 166, 167 



Massachusetts, inspection and statistics. . 21 



Meckeliaingens 43 



Megalops thrissoides 30 



Melamniis bidentatus 42 



Melanojframmus a'glcfiiius 26, 37 



Menhaden 30, 31, 40, 47, 53, 67 



abundance of 13, 184 



as bait 112, 126, 177, 179, 180 



fisheries for 191 



food for fishes. .42, 44, 58, 59, 63, 65, 77, 78 



food of 43,74 



movements of 47 



oil from 149 



packed in oil 146, 148 



spawning of 83 



statistics of 214, 215 



utilized 68,146 



value for food 191 



Menobranchus 64 



Menticirrus nebulosus 28, 41 



Merlucius bilinearis 26 



Mesodesma arctata 37 



Methods of fishing 16,133 



Microdeutopus minax 37 



Microgadus tomcodus 26, 37 



Micropogon undulatus 28 



Mierostomidse 30 



Migrations of fishes 47, 59, 165 



Milner, James W., cited 208 



Minnows 35, 42 



Misaine Bank 95 



Miscou Flat 99 



Mobius, Prof. Karl, cited 58 



Modiola 132 



glandula 37 



modiolus 40 



nexa 37 



plicatula 32 



Modiolaria nigra 37 



Mrora levis 37 



Molgula manhattensis 34 



Mollusks as bait 31, 33, 129 



food for fishes 36, 38, 42, 76, 79, 90 



food of 79 



Monkfish 25 



Mout acuta Indent ata 37 



Pago. 



Mod taenia el evata :i7 



Monte Bolca, fossil fish at 72 



Moonfish 29 



Morone americana 29, 42 



Mortality of fishes 48, 66, 68, 69 



Mud, destroying fish 68, 71 



swallowed by fish 43 



Mugil albula 29 



brasiliensis 29 



Mnlinia lateralis • 34 



Mullets 29 



abundance of 14, 185 



coming inshore 52 



culture of, by Romans 161 



fisheries for 14,191 



importance as a food- fish 185,198 



packed in oil 146 



roes of 14, 186 



Murres used is bait 125 



Muskallonge 193 



Mussels as bait 32, 111, 126, 132 



food for fishes. 40 



used for food 132 



Mustelus canis 41 



Mya arenaria % 32, 35, 40, 43, 111, 131 



Myliobatis frominvillei . . . .* 43 



Mysis 32,38,39,42 



americana 35, 42, 43 



Mytilus 132 



edulis 32,40,113 



modiolus 113 



My xine 64, 65, 81 



Karcotics used in fisheries 124 



Natica clausa 38 



flava 38 



imraaculata 36 



Natural history of fishes 1G, 24 



Nephthys ingens 43 



Neptunea pygnnea 38 



Nereis 73 



limbata 42 



virens 33, 37, 41 



Nets, distance apart 155 



obstructing passage of fish 59 



regulations on size 155 



use of 119 



New Brunswick, fossil fishes 71 



Newfoundland, cod fisheries near 168 



lack of fishery statistics . 15, 21 

 Noank method of preserving bait and fish. 134, 178 



North Shoal 86 



Northers, effect on fish 69, 70 



Norway haddock 26 



Norway, ice sent to Hull 23 



regulating the fisheries of 155, 156 



scientific investigations in 24 



statistics of fisheries in 1866 20 



use of long-lines 113 



utilizing refuse ..139, 141, 149, 180, 190, 209 



Nucnla limatula :. 37 



proxima 35, 37, 38, 40 



sapotilla 37 



tenuis 37,38 



Nut t, N. B., cited 131 



Obstructions in rivers 59, 67 



Ocean fisheries inexhaustible 17 



Oft'al attracts predaceous fishes 140, 1 81 



skates 141 



consumed by scavengers 75, 139, 180 



disposal of 117,138,180 



effect on fisheries ....138, 140, 165, 181, 207, 208 



of codfish utilized 173 



Offshore fishes 46,53 



Oil from fishes and offal 67, 139, 149 



from menhaden, statistics 214 



of fishes, industrial applications 149 



preserving fish in 146, 148 



Ommastrephes 113, 130 



illecebrosa 32 



Ophiopholis aculeata 34, 36 



Ophiurans, food for fishes 34,36 



Opisthonema thrissa 31 



Oreynus alliteratus 27 



thunnina 40 



thynnus 27 



Organicmu'd, food for marine life 74,79 



Orphan Bank 99 



Osmerus raordax 30 



