XLIV CONTENTS. 



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IX. European authorities on the subject of regulating the fisheries by 

 LAW 139 



On the fisheries of the Gulf of Naples, by Achille Costa 139 



On the possibility of exhausting the sea-fisheries, by James G. Bertram 141 



Extract from the London Field 1 144 



Extract from the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the 

 sea fisheries of the United Kingdom, presented to both houses of Parliament 



by command of Her Majesty 145 



X. Notices in regard to the abundance of fish on the New England coast 



IN former times 149 



XL Statistics of fish and fisheries on the south shore of New England. 173 



Table I. Amount of fish taken at Menemsha Bight, Martha's Vineyard 173 



lahlell. General return of the Waquoit weir for 1871 174 



Table III. Eeturn of dog-fish and blue-fish at Waquoit weir for seven years.. 175 

 Table IV. Consolidated returns of alewives, shad, menhaden, bass, blue-fish, 



and dog-fish, at Waquoit weir, for seven years 176 



Table V. Days of first appearance of alewives, scup, blue-fish, and menhaden, 



at Waquoit weir, for thirteen years 176 



Table VI. Account of blue-fish caught with a line by Josiah C. Pease about 



Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1865-1871 177 



Table VII. Account of fish landed at Baxter's Wharf, Hyannis, in 1870 and 



1871 178 



Table VIII. Account of Austin Taylor, Hyannis, for 1870 and 1871 178 



Table IX. Account of Timothy Crocker, Hyannis, 1867-1871 179 



Table X. Account of J. G. Loring, Hyannis, 1867-1871 179 



Table XL Shipment of fish by railroad from Hyannis, monthly to New York, 



1866-1871 179 



Table XXL Statement offish caught at Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, in 1872.. 180 



Table XIII. Catch of fish at West Falmouth Pound 181 



Table XIV. Date of first appearance of fish at the pounds and weirs on the 



south side of New England „ 181 



XII. Supplementary testimony and information relative to the condi- 

 tion OF THE fisheries ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF NeW ENGLAND IN 1872 182 



Notes taken by the Commissioner 183 



Newport, Rhode Island , 183 



Wood's Hole, Massachusetts 183 



New York , 186 



Report of Vinal N. Edwards 187 



Nantucket 187 



Edgartown 188 



Hyannis 190 



Martha's Vineyard 191 



Lambert's Cove 191 



Vineyard Haven 192 



Additional notes taken by the Commissioner 193 



XIII. Pleadings before the senate committee on fisheries of the Rhode 

 Island legislature, at its January session of 1872 19G 



Argument of J. Talbot Pitman in favor of a law prohibiting the use of traps 



and pounds in Rhode Island 196 



Abstract of an address by Captain Nathaniel E. Atwood in opposition to leg- 

 islation 223 



