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Essex, Mass., clam industry at 586 



Enpagurns Bernhardus 652 



longicarpus 652 



pollicaris 652 



Exportation of whale oil.... 26 



Exports, duty on whale oil 37 



of canned lobsters 695 



clams from Boston 586 



dried shrimp 808 



lobsters to Europe 686 



sperm oil each year, 1860 to 1884 1(56 



whalebone in 176:5 104 



1865tol884 167 



whale oil, early 36 



1860 to 1884 165,166 



and whalebone, 1758 to 1763 105 

 value of... 167 



from New Zealand 213 



to England 137 



Export trade in leeches 814 



oysters 557 



Extinction of oysters, causes of 513 



Fairchild's Beach, Hoard's Island 421 



Fair Haven, Conn., bedding Chesapeake oysters at. 523 



oyster opening at 559 



soft clams at 589 



Fairhaven, Mass., Davis Strait whaling from 99 



lobster fishery at 783 



sealing fleet of 439, 440 



whaling fleet of 86, 171, 172 



voyages from 175-192 



Falkland Islands, description of 410 



fur .sealing at 409,434,461 



right whales near 16 



sealing voyage to 441-460 



whaling at 119 



Fall River, Mass., soft clams at 589 



whaling fleet of 171,172 



Falmonth, Mass., whale fishery statistics, 1771 to 



1775 116 



whaling fleet of 171,172 



Fanning, Capt. Edmund, at Masafuera in 1797 ... 465 



ou South Shetlands 405 



sealing voyage by ... ..401,441 



Fanning's Island 417 



Fan shells, name for scallops 565 



Farallone Islands, fur seals on 357 



Faroe Isles, blackfish fishery at 306, 307 



whaling at 248 



Fernandina, Fla., shrimp fishery at 804 



Fertilizers from lobster refuse 694 



horseshoe crab 654,655 



Fiddler-crab, uses of 648 



Fiji Islands, humpback whales at 22 



sperm-whales near 11, 1 



whalers' supply stations at 25 



Finback whales, cruising grounds for 23 



Indian name kauwid 62 



in Massachusetts Bay 41, 43 



number taken 60 



on California coast 53 



Pacific coast 55 



taken at Provincetown 3 



tendency to sink 2.70 



Finland, whale fishery in 207 



Finmark, whale fishery in 195 



whaliug on coast of 19 



Fisher, Capt. T.E., on shrimp fishery 804 



Fishermen, clam 610 



crab 634 , 640 



lobster 679-681, 747, 749, 751, 755, 758, 761, 



763, 464, 707, 769, 771, 773, 774, 775, 

 777, 778, 780, 783, 784, 787, 789, 792 



earnings of 680,681 



profits of 753 



total in Connecticut 789 



Maine 771 



Massachusetts 784 



New Jersey 793 



New York 792 



Rhode Island 787 



United States 793 



nationality of 579 



oyster, of Chesape ake Bay 550 



statistics of 564 



scallop 572 



sponge 822 



share system of 827 



wages of oyster 552 



Fishing-club at Cutty hunk Island 660 



Fishing grounds, lobster 661, 744-794 



Five Mile Eiver, Conn., lobster fishery at 787 



oyster planting at 535 



Flat clam 581 



Flatlands, N. Y. , blue-crab fishery at 636 



hard clams at 607 



Floating cars for crabs 633 



lobster 776 



Florida, blue-crab fishery in 644 



native oysters in 519 



oyster industry statistics 564, 565 



oysters in 511 



pecten shells in 567 



shrimp fishery in 804 



statistics in 810 



sponge culture in 832 



fishery in 821 



origin of 830 



stone-crabs in 651 



terrapin fishery in 503 



transplanting native seed oysters in 524 



trepang fishery in 816 



turtle fishery in 496 



Flounders for lobster bait 675 



method of capturing 675 



spearing, oil used in 675 



Flushing Bay, N. J., clams in 605 



Flushing.N. Y., hard clams at 605 



Folger, Capt. Barzillar, first on Kadiah ground ... 17 



Food of whalemen 227 



sealers, in Antarctic seal fishery 433 



Foreign whale fishery 17,192-218 



whaling fleet in 1842 71 



vessels in Arctic Ocean 85-94 



Foxes, statistics of capture of 378 



Fox Islands, Alaska 17 



Foyu, Capt. Svend, whaling by 195 



France, oyster fisheries of. .'. 573 



