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INDEX. 



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Shad, catch of, in Potomac River 



Eappahannock River 664 



Susquehanna River 653 



caught in weirs 



with hook 650 



close-time for 727 



cost of, to fishermen 616 



country supply of 663 



decrease of 627,633,638 



destroyed by eels 652 



dip-nets 686 



drag-nets 628 



drift-nets ..625,685 



Dutch net 628,636 



early held in disrepute 660 



trade in 649 



eggs of 684 



family supply of 649 



fishermen 615,616 



fishery, in Alhemarle Sound 632-637 



Altamaha River 617 



Chatham, Mass 297 



Cape Fear River 625 



Connecticut River 659 



Delaware River 654 



EdistoRiver 623 



Housatonic River 666 



Hudson River 658 



James River 638 



Maine 683-687, 701,702, 703,704, 708 



710,716,724,725 



Merrimac River 673 



New York Harbor ' 658 



Ogeechee River 618 



Pamlico River 631 



Pamlico Sound 632 



Potomac River 644 



Rappahannock River 644 



Saint John's River 614-617 



Saint Mary's River 617 



SanteeRiver 624 



Savannah Hirer 619 



Snsqnehanna River 645 



Tannton River 667 



WinyahBay 624 



York River 642 



laying out gill-nets 623 



laws relating to C57, ~-27 



methods of 614, 615, 616, 627, 645, 



651,657,658 



rent of 639 



statistics of 618, 619, 621, 624, 625, 626, 



631,664-666,719 



withtrapsm 620 



food of 654 



qualities of Florida 615 



for domestic supply 656 



former abundance of 644, 648, 656, 699 



value of 647 



gilling-geines 657 



gill-net fishery 052,666 



gill-nets 615, 618, 619, 621, 623, 630, 645, 665 



grades of pickled 686 



growth of 655 



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Shad, haul-seine fishery, statistics of 666 



haul-seines 621,625,628,636,645,665 



hickory 618 



iced 614,666 



increase of, in Connecticut River 663 



in pound-nets 606, 608, 609 



life of 656,684 



low price of 660 



mess 687,724 



methods of capturing 684 



curing 686 



migrations of 655 



movements of - -- 632, 654 



natural history of - 683 



nets in Saint John's River 614 



night fishing for 640,652,686 



number of, to barrel 687 



obstructed by dams 650 



pickled 640,641,642,709 



planked 656 



pound-nets 628, 645, 665, 666 



price of 614,649,687,710 



proportions of buck to roe 630 



reaches on Saint John's River 615 



results of propagation of 645 



return to place of spawning 655 



river 684,719 



runs of, in Delaware River 655 



Neuse River 631 



Susquehanna River 646 



salted 649,656 



scoop-nets 621,662 



sea 634,700,719,724 



seasons for 613, 615, 620, 626, 633, 639, 642, 655, 



662,683 



geines 636,639,656,685 



vast size of 636 



size of 615,619,648,683 



skim-nets 625,629,643 



smoked 656 



spav.-ned, called racers 655 



spawning grounds of 614,620 



habits of 684 



season in Florida 615 



spring 684 



stake-nets 627,636,644,658 



traded for salt 619 



trap-net 628 



traps on James Ri ver 639 



Trenton 655 



twaite 419 



value of, in last century 642 



weirs .-. 684,719 



weight of 656 



white 639,642 



Shadine, menhaden as 491 



Share, halibut fishermen's 18 



Shares in mackerel fishery 289 



Shark, Alaska 206 



in Cape Cod weirs 600 



thresher 388 



Sharks, destroy menhaden nets 332 



destructive to trawls 179 



schooling of codfish 206 



