CONTENTS. 



XI 



CHAPTER II. 



COAST FISHES AND FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 Section Paee 



I. The Mackerel 319 



II. The Shad 324 



III. The Mpssbunker or Menhaden, 326; Menhaden for Bait Frozen 



Herrings 328 



IV. The Codfish Catching and Curing it 328 



CHAPTER III. 



Whale Fishing, 332 ; the Striped Red Mullet 338 



CHAPTER IV. 



Salt-water Fisheries, 339; the Chesapeake Bay Fishery, 342; Findon 



Haddocks, 342 ; Preserving Food-fishes Fresh 343 



PART IY. 



ANCIENT AND MODERN FISH-CULTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 The Art among the Ancients 347 



CHAPTER II. 

 Fish-culture in Europe in Early Times 350 



CHAPTER III. 

 Fish-culture of this Century 355 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Natural History of the Salmon, 367 ; Development of the Salmon 371 



CHAPTER V. 



I. Fish Propagation assisted by Art, 378; best Water for hatching 

 Salmon, 382 ; special Directions about preparing Spawning-boxes 

 386; securing the Ova of a Salmon, 387; Mr. Gillone's Process 

 of propagating Trout and Salmon, 388; Care in obtaining Fecun- 

 dated Spawn, 390 ; a simple Process for preparing a Spawning- 

 bed, 392; feeding young Trout or Salmon, 392; stocking old 



Ponds \vith Trout 393 



II. Ainsworth's Race and Screens, 397; Furman's natural Hatching 

 Race, 401; "General Directions" by Seth Green, 403; every 

 Farmer should have a Trout Preserve, 405; General Observa- 

 tions 406 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Salmon Passes, Ladders, etc 407 



PART V. 



A GLIMPSE OF ICHTHYOLOGY. 



CHAPTER I. 



I. First Class of Fishes Spine-rayed bony Fishes, 424 ; Second Class 

 of Fishes Soft-rayed bony Fishes, 428 ; Third Class of Fishes- 

 Cartilaginous Fishes 432 



II. The common Eel, 436 ; the Lamprey, 437 ; queer Fishes' 439 



III. Fishes for acclimatizing in American Rivers 440 



