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Carting mackerel. 



Jigger loaded with barrels of brine salted mackerel. Gloucester, 

 Mass., 1882. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Fresh-fish market. 



Street-front view of Fulton wholesale fish market. New York, 

 1882. Photo. 2,113. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Fresh-fish market. 



Interior view of Fulton wholesale fish market. New York, 1882. 

 Photo. 2,118. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Fresh- fish market. 



Water-front view of Fulton wholesale fish market, with live-cars 

 and vessels in foreground. New York, 1882. Photo. 2,124. 

 U. S. Fish Commission. 



Fish cart. 



Two-wheeled hand-cart used by fish peddlers in New England towns. 

 Boston, Mass., 1882. Photo. 1,803. TJ. S. Fish Commission. 



Loading dry fish. 



Vessel at Trefethen's wharf loading the dry fish for market. Port- 

 land, Me., 1882. Photo. 1,861. IT. S. Fish Commission. 



Fish market. 



View of dock and fish cars. Detroit, Mich., 1882. Photo. 2,205. 

 U. S. Fish Commission. 



Fish wharf. 



View of Perkins's wharf, with men at work packing dry and pickled 

 fish and wagons loading with boxes and barrels of fish. Glou- 

 cester, Mass., 1882. Photo. 2,109. U. S. Fish Commission. 



IV.— PATEMTS RELATING TO FISHERY PRODUCTS. 



12 Specifications and drawings; issued from 1834 to 1883. 



(Issued by the United States prior to January 1, 1883. In three vol- 

 umes. The third volume contains nearly three hundred patents re- 

 lating to the preparation and preservation of fish and products, class- 

 ified as follows :) 



" 1. Food compounds : Extract of clams, extract of oysters, fish and po- 

 tatoes, manufacture of caviare. 



"2. Implements for preparing : Clam-openers, eel-skinners, fish-boners, 

 fish-cutters, fish-drainers, fish-dressers, fish-flakers, fish-sealers, mack- 

 erel-splitters, oyster-blocks, oyster-knives, oyster-nippers, oyster- 

 openers, oyster-shuckers. 



