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THE MACKEREL FISHERY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
1—THE MACKEREL PURSE-SEINE FISHERY. 
The fishing grounds. 7. Landing the cargoes, 
The fishermen. 8. Financial profits of seining. 
The vessels. 9. History of the use of purse-seines. 
Apparatus and methods of fishing. 10, The attempted use of the purse-seine in Norwegian 
. The care of the fish. : waters, 
. Running for the market. 
2.—THE SPRING SOUTHERN MACKEREL FISHERY. 
. Fishing grounds. 3. The vessels, apparatus, and methods of fishing. 
. Early catches of. mackerel, 1878 to 1881. 
3.—THE MACKEREL HOOK FISHERY. 
1. The fishing grounds. 6. Homeward passage and disposition of the fish. 
2. The fishermen. 7. Financial profits of the mackerel hook fishery. 
3. The vessels. 8. Itinerary of a mackerel voyage to the Gulf of Saint 
4, Apparatus and methods of fishing. Lawrence. 
5. The care of the fish. 
4._THE MACKEREL GILL-NET FISHERY. 
1, Apparatus and methods. | 2. History of mackerel gill-net fishing. é 
5.—EARLY METHODS OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY (1620 TO 1820). 
1, Catching mackerel with drag-seines. | 2. Drailing for mackerel. 
6.—LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MACKEREL. 
1, Legislation in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- | 2. Protest against gigging and seining in the present 
turies. century. 
7.—STATISTICS OF THE MACKEREL TISHERY. 
1. Statistics of the fishing fleet and the products in 1880. 3. Statistics of mackerel fishing by American vessels in 
. Statistics of the New England fleet in 1879, 1880, and 
the Gulf of Saint Lawrence from 1873 to 1882. 
4. Statistics of inspection of pickled mackerel. 
1881. 
