112 mDEX 



Early methods of taking shad in tidal pools 39.55,102 



Economy, mess shad 51,83 



Eeels harmful to shad ■18,88.9c 



Eggs of shad, number in female xli, 75 



" supply, absolutely necessary xlii 



Elmsdale sitting 47 



Fall shad. (See summer shad) 31,9.3-4 



Fine spawning shad formerly off St. John and Charlotte counties 94 



Fisheries Act prohibits salmon drift nets, with exceptions 10 



Folly Village sitting 55 



Food of shad xxx, 18, 24-6, 33, .59, 62-3. 83 



Former etxent of shad industry xiii, 18,22. 43, .5.5, 67, 74,99, 101 



Foul .salmon (in Fisheries Act) requires definition lii, 93 



Gardiners Creek, N.B., sitting 98 



Gaspereaux added to Commissioners' work xlvli. 17 



nets used 33,41,42.44,91 



River, N.S 6,28.29,30.31.32 



Geographical range of shad. (See range) xxi 



Gear, various kinds of shad fishing, used xxvii, xxix 



Graham, Rev. Hugh, 1791 xv 



Green, Seth, famous shad hatching work xliv 



Gregoire, Geo., on shad fishing in 1845 51 



Grounds for recommendations xli"^ 



Gun-firing drives shad away 96 



Habits of shad xxix, xxx, 18-9, 23-5, 41-6-8-9. 65 



Halifax sitting 50 



Halloday, Tristram, pioneer in shad fishing 51 



Hampton sitting 88 



Harrison, Inspector H. E., on remedy for shad decline » xi, xxvi 



Hatcheries for shad 7,92 



" location of 7 



" methods adopted xiv 



Hatcheries for shad not sole solution.. xliii, xliv 



High price of shad recently 26,79,82-3-6,92-3 



Historical references xiv, xvii 



Hudson River (U.S.A.), shad failed, for many years xliii 



Illegal fishing 21, 10, 49, 5.5-«, 73-4, 84 



Importance of shad industry xi. 39. 39. .50, 99. 102 



Inspector Harrison, Fredericton. N.B xi. xxvi 



Inspectors of Fisheries urge should be protection 101,102 



Inexhaustible supply of shad, former theory of xiv 



Inferiority of river shad 51. 7t-5, 82-3, 91-6 



Interim Report liii, t 



International aspect of the shad question xlvii. 25, 31 



Fishery Commission xlvii 



Introduction of shad into new waters xliv 



Kennetcock River 5 34.5 



Kinds of nets used by fishermen 18-19. 22. 13. .5.5. 76-7-9-80, 81, 97 



Jordan, Prof. D. Starr, U.S. International Fishery Commissioner xlvii 



Length of nets 18, 3.3-1-5-9, 42-.3. 55, 62-.5, 76, 82-90, 98 



List of sittings of Commissioners ]5 



Local schools of shad. Bay of Fundy 17 50 90 



" " " N.S. shores g7 



Lorneville, N.B., sitting 93 



Maitland sitting 39 



Markets for shad, fresh 23,53-4, 59,75,82-3, 91, 4 



Marks to be on nets g 



Marketing of shad (salted) xxxviii, 23,55-9, 71,82-3, 92-4 



Memorial of Legislative Council and Hou.se of Assembly, N.S is, x 



" from Colchester (Cobequid Bay) x 



