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closely during the past four or five years. Five years ago 
there were four or: five’ steamers, employed; now ‘therey#are 
sixty-six. There are some 1,500 men, and several millions 
of dollars employed: in ‘it. The amount of oil we. obtam 
from the menhaden is. .greater than we- derive, from/ tie 
whale. A large amount of what is called whale-oil is 
nothing but menhaden-oil. One house in New York offers 
more whale-oil than is actually brought into the United 
States. I am indebted to Mr. Milner for statistics in regard 
to the lake-fisheries. 
The halibut-fishery has not been thoroughly investigated ; 
and Lieutenant de Broca, spoken of before, has furnished us 
with valuable estimates. 
The estimate given of the lobster-fishery is far below the 
truth. 
As to the herring-fishery, this does not include nearly 
all the product of the American fisheries. It does not in- 
clude the Newfoundland and Labrador herring brought by 
the vessels which go up there and employ the Newfound- 
land fishermen to catch them. These are in the Canadian re- 
ports, and to avoid duplicating them they have been in- 
cluded, There are probably thirty or forty trips made every 
year to the Magdalen Islands to bring back herring. 
As to flounders: These are taken in fyke-nets in Narra- 
gansett Bay, in Connecticut, and,in winter on'the coast of 
Maine, and in summer in smacks on the shoals of Long 
Island Sound. * i 3 = i 3 ey ‘3 ad 
= ** «In «regard te the imperfection ‘of the gstatinties 
furnished by the United States Census, I will only say that 
there is no reference whatever in the last industrial statistics 
to the menhaden-fishery, which we have seen amounts to al- 
most $2,000,000 in yearly value’; and if anybody who will 
