REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [2] 



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II. THE MACKEREL FISHERY OF THE UNITED STATES— Continued. 



F. — The spring southern mackerel fishery — Continued. 



32. Early catches of mackerel, 1878-1881 112 



33. The vessels H3 



34. Apparatus and methods of fishing 113 



G.— Early methods of the mackerel fishery, 1620 to 1820 115 



35. Seining mackerel with drag-seines " 115 



36. Drailing for mackerel 117 



III. LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MACKEREL 119 



H. — Laws, petitions, and protests 119 



37. Legislation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries f 119 



38. Protests against jigging and seining in the present century 121 



IV. STATISTICS OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY IN 1880, BY R. EDWARD 



EARLL 124 



I. — Tables showing statistics 124 



89. Table I. Vessels and men in the mackerel fishery (by ports) 124 



40. Table II. Mackerel fleet, by States, according to fishing grounds. . . 126 



41. Table III. Mackerel fleet, by States, according to apparatus 126 



42. The products of the North American mackerel fishery fo? 1880 127 



V. THE MACKEREL CANNING INDUSTRY, BY R. EDWARD EARLL... 131 



J. — The development of the mackerel canning industry 131 



43. The methods and statistics of canning ' 131 



VI. METHODS OF PACKING, AND INSPECTION LAWS, BY A. HOWARD 



CLARK 137 



K. — Methods of packing, and inspection laws 137 



44. Methods of packing mackerel 137 



45. Inspection laws 147 



VII. STATISTICS OF INSPECTION OF MACKEREL FROM 1804 TO 1880, 



BY A. HOWARD CLARK 162 



L.— Statistics of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, with 



total statistics 162 



46. Statistics of Massachusetts 162 



47. Statistics of Maine 193 



48. Statistics of New Hampshire 202 



49. Statistics of the United States (totals) 213 



VIII. CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES, BY CAPT. J. W. COLLINS 217 



M. — Fishermen's records 217 



50. Seventeenth century 217 



51. Nineteenth century 218 



IX. APPENDIX — INSPECTION LAWS, COMPILED BY A. HOWARD 



CLARK 354 



52. Existing laws 354 



53. Repealed laws 372 



54. Inspection laws of the British Provinces 395 



X. APPENDIX— THE MACKEREL FLEET 418 



55. Vessels in the mackerel fishery in 1880 ,. 418 



XI. APPENDIX— MACKEREL FISHERY IN THE GULF OF SAINT LAW- 



RENCE 430 



56. Catch of mackerel by Americans in Canadian waters 430 



