Statistics of American Fishertes. 105 
take any trouble to glance at the tables published by the 
United States heretofore, they will see that in every other 
particular it is as absolutely incorrect and imperfect as it can 
be. There was no effort made, as it appears, to cover the 
fisheries. As an example of the. way the statistics of every 
kind have been jumbled together, I will state that the white- 
fish of the lakes and those of Long Island Sound, which are 
the menhaden, were all placed in one category. The herring 
of the sea and the herring of the lakes and the herring of 
the Chesapeake, which is the alewife, and the herring of the 
St. John, which is the menhaden, are all under one name; 
and so I might name a dozen instances of inaccuracies, in 
addition to the total inadequacy of the whole report. 
I have the honor of submitting to the Association, a series 
of the estimated values of the Fisheries, with some details 
which may be of interest. 
