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Auckland Islands, right whaling at 17 



sealing at 424 



sealing voyage to 448 



Australia, humpback whales off 22 



right whales at 16 



sealiug voyage to 446 



sperni whales off coast of 11,12 



whale fishery of 152,208 



Azoreau whalemen 218 



Azores, sperm whales off 9, 14 



whalers supply station at 24, 25 



Babylon, N. Y., young quahaugs at . r >96 



Back River, Virginia, oyster planting in 527 



Baffin's Bay, whale fishery in 95 



Bahama Banks, sperm whales near 14 



Bahama Islands, whaling at 64 



Bahama sponge fishery 836 



Bait, bine crabs for 635, 642, 640 



clam, law concerning 610 



clams for 632 



crabs for 631,634,638,643 



fiddler crabs for 648 



flounders for lobster 676 



horseshoe crabs for 652 



lady-crab for 651 



lobster 659,747-793 



manner of catching 67;> 



quantity used 676 



total used in' Connecticut 789 



Maine 771 



Massachusetts 784 



New Jersey 79:j 



New York 792 



Rhode Island 787 



United States 793 



menhaden, for lobster 677 



mussels for 632 



prawns for 632 



razor-fish for GJ.5 



rock-lobsters for 793 



salted clams for ... 594 



sand-bug for gjg 



sea-clams for glO 



sea-crabs for (,44 



seal-pins for lobster -. (57(3 



sheep heads and livers for 676 



shrimp and prawns for 643,800 



used in lobster fishery 674-677 



Balamoptera laticeps 195, 204 



musculus 195,204 



sibbaldi 196,204 



Balenos Bay, humpback whales in . 22 



Baltimore, Md., oyster packing in 560,561 



quahaug market at 608 



sealing voyages from 451 



Baker, Capt. Amos C., injured by whale i>7;{ 



Barataria Bay, shrimp in 800, 801, 805 



Barbadoes, whaler's supply station 25 



whaling at 214 



Barnard, Capt. Chas. H., English cruelty to 411 



Barncgat Bay, oyster decrease in 518 



Barnes, Capt. W. M 7,11,84 



on Arctic whaling 74 



whalemen's songs 283 



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Barnstable district, lobster fishery in 778,784,785 



Barustablc, Mass., drift whales at 27 



lobster fishery at 778. 780 



oysters at 509 



soft clams at 589 



whale fishery statistics, 1771 to 



1775 116 



whaling fleet, 1840 to 1880.... 171, 172 



Barrington River, Rhode Island, oysters in 510,536 



Bartlett, I. H., & Sous, on whale fishery 164, 173,246 



Hartlett, AV. II., on steam whale-boats 247 



Bass, crabs as bait for '. 635 



Bath dist rict, lobster fishery in 7o'l-763 



Bath, Me., lobster fishery at 707 



soft clams in district of 584 



whaling fleet of 171 



Bath, N. Y., hard clams at 607 



Bauldry, Capt., escape of 21 



Bay of Fnndy, oysters in 509 



soft clams in 584 



Bay of Islands, New Zealand 25 



Bay of Panama, humpback whales in 22 



I Say of Vallo de Bauderas, Mexico . 23 



Bay Shore, N. Y., blue crab fishery at 636 



Bay ville, N. Y., hard clams at 605 



soft clauis at 591 



Beach clam 608 



Beale, Thomas, on sperm whales 8, 63 



Beam trawl for capture of lobsters 678 



Bearded seal 474 



flesh of 478 



Bear Island, bottle-nose whales at 204 



Beaufort, N. C., blue crab fishery at 643 



shrimp at 802 



stone crabs at 650 



terrapin fishery at. 501 



turtle fishery at 495 



whaling at 40, 48 



BSche-de-mer 815 



Belfast district lobster fishery in 755,759,770-772 



Belfast, Me., soft clams at 584 



lifllo Island Straits, whaling in 217 



Bohnont, CaL, oyster planting at 539 



Beluga, Eskimo fishery for 61 



hunting, methods of 61 



or white whale, distribution of 24 



Russian, fishery for 204 



Belvidere, whaling steamer 3 



Bcrardins whale at New Zealand 212 



Bering Island, Alaska 321,331 



Bering Sea, buwhead whales in 18 



right whales in 17 



whale oil from 8 



whaling iu 3,205 



Bering Strait, history of whaling north of 73 



loss of whalers north of 88 



whaling iu 21 



Bering's voyage to Alaska 321 



Bermuda Islands, whaler's supply station 25 



whaling at 63 



Beverly, Mass., lobster fishery at 774 



whalingfleetof 171,172 



voyages from 178-192 



Bidarkies, covered with aea-lion bkins 471 



