3360 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



III. 



Statistics prepared by Mr. Goode. 

 III. 



I, George Brown Goode, of the City of Washington, in the District of 

 Columbia and United States of America, being duly sworn, do depose 

 and say that I am the Assistant Curator of the United States National 

 Museum, and for the last eight years I have been engaged in studying 

 the natural history and habits of the fishes of the North Atlantic Coast, 

 and during the last six years I have been an assistant to the United 

 States Fish Commission, and during that time it has been part of my 

 employment to collect and arrange statistics as to the amount of the 

 fish taken on the coast of the United States, that the tables hereto an- 

 nexed were compiled from statistics and returns made from the differ- 

 ent fishing towns of the Northern Atlantic States to the United States 

 Fish Commission, and that the same are true to the best of my knowl- 

 edge and belief; that the prices stated of the various kinds of fish, are 

 actual prices as paid for said fish in Fulton Market, New York City, 

 that the table marked XVIII, (see Part I, Appendix O), entitled: 

 " Table Showing Statistics of the Manufacture of Menhadden Oil and 

 Guano in the United States, in the years 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876," was 

 also compiled by me from the returns of the United States Fish Com- 

 mission, and that the same is true to the best of my knowledge and 

 belief. 



GEORGE BROWN GOODE. 



PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA, 



COUNTY OF HALIFAX, SS. 



HALIFAX, October 10th, 1877. 



Then personally appeared the above-named George Brown Goode, and 

 made oath that the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, is true to the 

 best of his knowledge and belief, before me, 



L. G. POWER, 



Notary Public. 



ESTIMATED TOTAL OF AMERICAN FISHERIES FOR 1876. 



Consolidated table of sea-fisheries east of Cape May 13,030,821 



Lake fisheries in 1872 (Milner) 1,600,000 



Products of whale fishery 2,737,379 



$17, 36rt, 200 



This is exclusive of all river fisheries ; of the river fisheries of sal- 

 mon, shad, alewives and striped bass ; of the coast fisheries south of 

 Delaware Bay (Mullet, Bluefish, Menhaddeu, etc.); of all the Pacific 

 coast fisheries, (salmon, cod, haddock, etc.); of the shell-fish (oysters, 

 clams, etc.); of the Crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, etc.); of sponges, of 



