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845 



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Biddeford Pool, Me., lobster fishery at 707,726,763 



shrimp at 801 



Blackfish, captured by whalers 299 



capture of, at Cape Cod 298 



destructive to oysters 301 



dimensions of 298 



distribution of 24 



fishery for 295-307 



at Faroe Isles 306 



division of profits in 307 



from Proviucetowii 144 



historical notes on 300 



in New England 295 



Indian uame,"klas-ko-kop-pu" 62 



mackerel eaten by 302 



methods of capture at Faroe Isles 306 



methods of capture by vessels 299 



nets for capturing 306 



number taken at Faroe Isles , . . 307 



oil of 4,5,299-309 



statistics of capture of 300-307 



Blackford, Eugene!!., on crab market 636 



lobsterlaws 730 



lobsters 711,789 



Black whale at New Zealand 209 



Block Island, Rhode Island, lobster fishery at 785 



natural oyster bed at. 511 



Blubber, method of miucing '279 



whale, for food 63 



Blue crabs, fishery for 629 



lobster bait for 660 



statistics of 658 



Blue Hill, Me., lobster fishery at 752 



Blue Point oysters, origin of 517 



sent to San Francisco 538 



Boats, Cape Eoseway wherry 672 



cat, Martha's Vineyard 571 



Providence Eiver 671 



crab, in Delaware 640 



New Jersey 638 



double-ender or peapod 671 



in quahaug fishery 603 



in scallop fishery 578 



lobster . .... 669-671 



statistics of 747,749,751,755,758, 



761, 778, 780, 763, 764, 7(57, 769, 771, 773, 

 774, 775, 777, 783, 784, 787, 789, 792, 793 



in Connecticut 789 



Maine 771 



Massachusetts 784 



New Jersey 793 



New York 792 



Rhode Island 787 



United States 793 



Maine reach 670 



Matinicus 670 



oyster, at Long Island 534 



oyster-dredging 550 



oyster, of Delaware Bay 530 



James River 526 



total statistics of 565 



scallop 571 



two-sail lobster 671 



Boat-spade, method of using 264 



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Boat-steerers on whaling vessels 222 



Boat, whaling 3 



Boat-whaling at Barbadoes 214 



Cape Cod 41 



early history of 26 



in Australia 208 



California 52 



Maine 40,41 



Massachusetts 41 



New York 48 



New Jersey 48 



North Caraliua ' 48 



Ehode Island 48 



the present century 40 



Bceck, Prof. Axel, on lobster fishery 668,711 



Bogue Sound, North Carolina, scallops in 560 



Bomb-lance, Allen's 254 



at Barbadoes 21o 



Brand's 254 



construction of 255 



for killing gray whales 24 



method of firing 46 



premature explosion of 272 



used in shore whaling 41 



California 56 



use of 53 



with darting gun 254 



Bonin Islands, sperm whales around 11 



Bonnycastle, on Newfoundland sealing 475 



Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, lobster fishery at 161 



Booth Bay, Me., lobster fishery at 701,707 



Burden, Capt. G. B., on whalemen's signals 257 



Border's Island, discovery of 446 



sealing at 425 



Boston Anglers' Association, on lobster laws 728 



Boston district, lobster fishery in 775,784,785 



Boston Fish Bureau, report of 707 



Boston Harbor, crabs in 649 



whale in 26 



Boston, Mass., Antarctic sealing from 401 



as a lobster market 682 



census statistics of whaling fleet . . . 173 



clam fishery at 586,587 



decrease of lobsters at 709 



early trade in whale oil 36 



lobster industry at . . . .664, 700, 704, 776, 777 



laws at 727 



natural oyster beds at 514 



oysters at 509,559 



sea-clams at 609 



sea-clams sold at 610 



sealing vessels from 440 



voyages from 446,456 



soft clams at 589 



whale fishery of .-...104,116 



whaling fleet of 3,171,172 



voyages from, 1870 to 1880. 176-192 



Bottlu-uoso whales, fishery for 204 



Bounty, mutiny ou English ship 409 



to vessels in whale fishery. 32, 66, 67, 102, 104, 131, 



197,207 



Bounty Isles, fur-seals at 425, 231 



Bounty Rocks, fur-sealing at 431 



Bouvette's Island, fur-sealing at 413 



