INDEX. 



Abundance of shad, former 18,23. 36-7-8-9-40, 41-5, 55-9, 76, 82 



Alewife 18.20.33,90 



Amherst sitting '^6 



Amount of shad catches, 1784, 1787, 1790 xv 



Annapolis river. Angling 20,69-70,71 



spawning ground '0 



sitting 19 



Artificial breeding xli. xlii, .xliii 



Arrival of shad, different localities -xxi, xxii 



Avon river 33-4-5 



Angling for salmon 21,70,71 



" young salmon, illegal xlviii 



Bass Kiver sitting 62 



Bass, Stripxl Sea, method of spawning 44,45 



Best catches of shad periods of xviii 18,22-28,41,55-9,62-7,82 



Boats, decline of 64,79-80,83 



Brush weirs. {See weirs.) 18.37,62-65,86 



Canning. N.S., sitting 25 



Canso, N.S.. sitting 67 



Census Eeturns, N.S., 1861 107 



Close season for shad 4, 23-4-30, .50, .57-9-60. 61-4-6, 77-9, 81 



Come-BacliS or spent shad 90. 91'-2-3-4-6 



" " descend St. .Tolin river very rapidly 93 



Commission approved by public 4,21,66,74 



Commissioners' report re couiit and weight of fish xliv 



Comparison former and present conditions 23.104-5 



Condition of the fisheries 4, 24-C. 32-7. .56,66, 82-3, 92-4-5, 10.5-fi 



Coa.st United States, Shad taken to Pacific xliv 



Connecticut Shad Hatcheries, found spawn Shad scarce xliii 



Conclusion of report xliv 



Cost of establishing hatcheries 6 



" planting Shad in Pacific coast xliv, xlv 



Culture of Shad. (5fe hatcheries.) xl, xli, 92-3 



Curing of Shad, various methods xxxviii. 33, 36, 55, 76-7-9. 81-2 



Cummings. Hon. C. N., Shad catches 55 



Dams and other obstructions 8,34,42-5-9,60,74 



Davison, J. W., letter to Commissioners, his theory 103 



Decline of Shad, causes, spawning fish destroyed xxxiii-iv-v, 21, 31-9-^0 



" " " obstructions by dams xxxvi,5, 8 



" " " overfishing xxxvi-vii, 61-2-5-6-7. 71 



" " " pollution nf rivers by sawdust, &c xxxvii-viii, 5, .34, 60, 78 



a national loss '. xii, 39, 59, 66. 102-3 



" boats xiv, 64-6, 79-80, 81-2-3 



in St. .John river 91-2-3 



Destruction of spawn shad ruins industry xxxv, 23-4-5, 7, 52 



Dip nets 5, 6, 20 



Digby sitting 16 



DiSerent schools of shad xxiii, 17,23,41, 73-4-5, 82-90, 91-4-5-8 



Distinct runs of shad in Bay of Fundy 17,23.91-4-5 



Dorchester sitting 91 



Drag seines 25 



Drift nets xiii, 18, 25-7-30, 31-40. 41, 55-9. 61 



Early reports on shad 1790 xv, xvi 



" " " by .Tudge Deschamps xv 



