INDEX. 



793 



Page. 



Menhaden vessels, statistics of 360, 361 



weirs 341 



Merchant, Capt. Epos W 37, 197, 288, 324 



Merchant, Capt. George 36, 200, 253, 259, 266, 271 



Merriinac River 347,370,667,672 



Merritt, H. M 606 



Merry meeting Bay 719 



Miamogne, menhaden fishing at 371-40'J 



Michigan City, trawl ashing at 767 



Microgadns proxiiuus in Pacific 200 



toin-cod 678 



Middle Bank, halibut fishery on 33 



Middlf liny, Maine 724 



Middlesex, Conn., shad at C60 



Middletown, Conn 660 



Migrations of cod 166,167 



Miles, -George W 344 



Milford, Del 533 



Millbridge, Me 474,520 



Milner, Professor 633,651,759,768 



Milk Island, floating traps at 599 



Milton, Del 528,533 



Milwaukee, gill- net fishery at 762 



seine fishery at 766 



Miqnelou Beach, halibut fishery at 4,44 



Miqnelou, halibut fishery at 17 



Miramichi, cod fishery at 137 



Miscou Flat, cod fishery on 137 



large cod on 139 



Mispillion Creek, Delaware 528 



Mississippi, mullet fishery of 577 



Mitchell, J. M., on herring 420 



Mobile Bar, red-snapper fishery at 585 



Mobile, red-snapper fishery from 585,587 



Mohawk River 658 



Molloy, John 223 



Monhegan Fall Ground 234 



Monhegan Island, herring fleet of 438 



mackerel off 247,276 



fishery at 647 



Mouomoy Point, pound-nets at 602 



Moon-eyes, dip-net fishery for 769 



Moon, herring fishery affected by 503 



Moosehead Lake, Maine 716 



Morey, George, on herring 4ii4 



Mossbunkers, canned.... 490 



menhaden called :i->9 



Mount Desert Island 705 



Mount Desert, Me. , herring fishery of 423, 438, 459 



Labrador fishery from 147 



Mount Desert Bock, mackerel off 247,276 



Mousam River, Maine 725 



Mugil albula 555 



braziliensis 555 



mexicana 560 



Mullet, abundance of 556,580 



bag-net 569 



bull 555,560 



camp 563 



catch of, in seines. 567 



cast-net fishery 569 



cast-nets, statistics of 577 



development of fishery for 530 



distribution of 555 



Tage. 



Mullet, drag-nets 567 



dressing of 572 



dried 500 



dry-salted 572,579 



ease with which secured 581 



exports of 580 



feeding-grounds of 556, 5fiO 



fishermen 561,570 



fishery 553 



apparatus of 562 



care of catch 572 



methods of 562 



of Great Lakes 766 



origin of 559 



profits of 582 



statistics of 575 



fisting-grounds for 560 



food qualities of 577, 581 



for grouper bait 593 



fresh 572,575-577 



gill-nets .' 568,575-577 



habits of 555 



hook- and-line fishery for 570 



in Florida 614 



markets for 577 



market value of 578 



merits of fresh 581 



methods of packing 573 



preserving 572 



movements of 556 



names for 555 



pound-nets 570 



roes . 573 



dried 575 



fresh 574 



method of curing 573 



salted 575 



statistics of 576-577 



salted 560, 572, 575. 576, 577, 578, 582 



seine fishery , 565 



seines 563,576,577 



size of 557 



spawning grounds of 560 



habits of 556 



stake-nets 568 



stop -fishing 5G9 



sweep-nets 568 



trade in fresh 578 



Murderkill Creek, Delaware 528 



Mu rres at Shumagin Islands 215 



Mutual Fishing Insurance Company 189 



My a arenaria 127 



Mystic, Conn., flounder fishing from 349 



Mystic River, Massachusetts 667 



Nantes, France, sardine canneries at 490 



Nanticoke shad fishery 647 



Nantucket, pound-net fisheries of 597,602 



pound-nets at 604 



Nantucket Shoals, halibut fishery on 4 



on 34,37 



Napeague, N. Y., menhaden at 374-409 



pound-nets at 607 



Narragansett Bay, herring in 426 



pound-net fisheries of 597, 604 



