340 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
SHORE AND VessEL AcCCESSORIES—Continued. 
Break hammer, used in oyster houses in connection with the hardie for breaking off 
the end of the oyster shell. 
Pliers, used for opening fresh-water mussels in order to remove the pearls. 
Pearl knife, used for opening and removing pearls from fresh-water mussels. 
Clam knife. Clam tongs. 
Culling hammers: These hammers represent the various types used for culling 
oysters on board vessels and in oyster houses. 
Stabbing knife: Type used in Baltimore and Crisfield. 
Oyster knives: 
Type used in Providence, R. I. 
With hook blade. Type used in 
Straight blade. 
New York patterns Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 
Sampler’s knife. Plain blade. 
Used in Gulf coast States. 
Norfolk. 
Used in Alexandria, Va. 
Used in New Haven. 
PHOTOGRAPHS, FISHERIES SERIES. 
Shore fisheries: 
Pile-driver fordriving pound-net stakes, 
Edenton, N. C. 
Tarring apparatus for pound net, Eden- 
ton. 
Pound-net boat, Edenton. 
Laying out theseine, AlbemarleSound. 
Baiting the seine, Albemarle Sound. 
Pound-net boat with catch, Albemarle 
Sound. 
Pound-net fish-houses, Edenton, N.C. 
Hanging pound nets out to dry, Eden- 
ton. 
Complete establishment of a pound net 
fisherman, Edenton. 
Engine house of one of the large seines, 
Albemarle Sound, 2 views. 
Engine house and steamboats with 
seines aboard, Albemarle Sound. 
Pound net and steamer, Cape Cod, 
Mass., 2 views. 
Pontoon for driving trap stakes, North 
Truro, Mass. 
Weir of J. M. Ellis, Deer Island, Me. 
Herring weir, near Eastport, Me. 
Taking the fish out of a weir. 
Showing character, rig, and method of 
mooring boats, Delaware City, Del. 
Typical sturgeon boats and two pon- 
toons upon which the fish are 
dressed and caviar made. 
Boats, sturgeon nets drying in the 
background, Delaware City, Del. 
Group of fishermen and implements, 
Delaware City. 
Cat-rigged fishing boats, Nantucket. 
Sailing dories and other small boats, 
Cape Ann, Mass. 
Transferring fish from live-car to ves- 
sel, Rockport, Tex. 
Taking fish from live-car, Rockport. 
Chinese market, San Francisco. 
Fish-cart used in New England. 
Fish-house, Pensacola, Fla. 
Fish market houses, Rockport, Tex. 
Taking on ice preparatory to leaving. 
Mending the seine. 
Drying the seine on reel. 
Shore fisheries—Continued. 
Drying seine on board, Rockport, Tex. 
Drying the seine, Biloxi, Miss. 
Oyster fisheries: 
Oyster canoes at wharf, Hampton, Va. 
Oyster vessel entering Palox River, 
Washington. 
Apparatus used in the oyster industry, 
Galveston, Tex. 
Tangles used for catching star-fish. 
Oyster dredges, etc., in storage, New 
Haven, Conn. 
Oyster lugger, Chemare Camanada, La. 
Oyster boat, Rockport, Tex. 
Dredging for oysters, Corpus Christi 
Bay. 
Schooner Never Tell, Mobile, Ala. 
Unloading oysters, Lopez, La. 
Load of oysters at Biloxi, Miss. 
Oyster shucking at Biloxi. 
Oyster house of John Dalton, Morgan 
City, La. 
Shucking oysters, C. H. Pierson’s can- 
nery, Baltimore, Md. 
Capping oyster cans, Baltimore. 
Packing raw oysters, Baltimore. 
View of canning room, C. H. Pierson’s, 
Baltimore. 
Shipping oyster shells for cultivated 
beds, New Haven, Conn. 
Vessel loaded with shells for planting 
on artificial beds. 
North Carolina oyster boats at Wash- 
ington, N. C. 
Oyster boats frozen in at Cambridge, 
Md. 
Oyster steamer, New Haven, Conn. 
Oyster boat ready for dredging. 
Oyster shells, San Francisco Bay. 
Oysters exposed at low tide, San Fran- 
cisco Bay. 
Fenee around oyster beds, § 
cisco Bay. 
Tonging oysters, San Francisco Bay. 
Sorting and cleaning oysters for market, 
San Francisco Bay. 
Oyster station, San Francisco Bay. 
San Fran- 
