INDEX 451 



Clipper schooner, description of, 316; modifications of, 316, 317; 



final stage of, 317. 

 Cod, fishing season of, 4; annual migration of, 4; trap, description 



of, 5; range of, 18; sorts of and markets for, 69; significance 



of emblem of, 276, 277; importance of in history, 277; grades 



of, 304; curing of, 303-306; boneless, manufacture of, 306, 307. 

 Codfisheiy, statistics of, 111, 112, 131, 132, 138, 139, 169, 170, 171 j 



in recent years, 276-284. 

 Colonization, desire for quickened by fisheries, 26; New England, 



Father of, 34; preparations for, 36, 37. 

 Conant, Roger, overseer at Cape Ann, 48; founder of Salem, 49; as 



establisher of fisheries, 50. 

 Connecticut, oyster industry of, 197, 242, 243; menhaden fishery of, 



228. 

 Connecticut River, shad fishery in, 196; attempt to preserve fishery 



of, 218, 219. 

 Convention of 1818, reason for, 157; terms of, 157-159; comparison 



of Treaty of 1783 with, 158, 159. 

 Cortereal, Gaspar and Miguel, expeditions of, 23; results of voyages 



by, 23. 

 Council for New England, patent of, 43; controversy of fishermen 



with, 44. 

 Cradock, Mathew, station at Mystic, 53. 



David J. Adams, seizure of, 330, 331; controversy over, 331, 332. 

 De Monts, settlement of Port Royal, 29. 



Deep-sea fisheries, beginning of, 69, 70; decadence of, 285293; meth- 

 ods of, 294-307; definition of, 300. 

 Deer Isle, fisheries of, 180, 181; clam fishery at, 244. 

 Denys, Jean, visit to Gulf of St. Lawrence, 24. 

 Dorchester Company, the, 47, 48. 

 " Dumb fish," 68, 69. 



Eastport, growth of, 143, 144; fisheries of, 177; first sealed goods 

 at, 178; fish trade of, 178; sardine experiments at, 211; first 

 sardine canneries at, 212; first lobster canneries at, 232. 



Embargo Act, effect of, 138. 



English, in early fisheries, 24 ; attempted colony of in Newfoundland, 

 24, 25; claim to Newfoundland, 27; and French, first hostilities 

 of, 29, 30; explorations and voyages, result of, 35, 36; policy 

 toward Newfoundland, 75; policy toward New England, 100; 

 attitude on American fisheries in British waters, 156; fishing 

 licenses of, 326. 



Fair Haven, oyster trade of, 197. 



Fanueil, Peter, 87, 88. 



Finnan haddie, 252. 



Fish, range of, 18; dried, 139, 167; pickled, 139, 140, 168; course of 

 trade of, 166, 167; for home consumption, 168, 169; products, 

 canning of, 214, 215; kinds cured by smoking, 252; smoking of, 

 methods, 253; methods of preserving fresh, 282, 283; kench and 



