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tion, for compiling complete returns of the vessel fisheries of the coun- 

 try. In the next chapter is given a list of the statements or statistical 

 compilations, papers, maps, etc., that have been furnished to the dif- 

 ferent branches of the Government during the year, and, considering 

 the small force available for the work, it is believed the showing will 

 be adjudged very creditable. 



G. — Miscellaneous reports. 



During the year a variety of reports, statistical and descriptive, have 

 been prepared, chiefly for the executive and legislative branches of the 

 Government. This matter has been incidentally referred to in preced- 

 ing chapters ; here it is proposed to present it more in detail, in order 

 that the amount of work of this character performed by the Commission 

 may be more fully understood. 



15. List of statistical statements, descriptive notes, etc., furnished to 

 Congress and the Executive Departments. — The following is a list of the 

 most important statistical tables, descriptive notes or reports, etc., 

 which have been furnished to Congress and the Executive Departments 

 during the year : 



(a) Number of American fishing vessels entering British. North American ports, 

 including those of Newfoundland, in 1885, and the amount of money expended by 

 them in said ports for bait, ice, supplies, etc. 



(&) The halibut fleet of the United States in 1880, classified according to the fish- 

 ing grounds. 



(c) The mackerel fleet of the United States in 1880, classified according to fishing 

 grounds. 



(d) The codfish fleet of the United States for 1880, classified according to fishing 

 grounds. 



(e) Total number of men employed on New England fishing vessels in 188G, and 

 the nationality of same. 



(/) Quantity of fresh and salt mackerel landed by the New England fleet in 1886, 

 and the localities in which the fish were taken. 



(g) Names, tonnage, and hailing ports of all American vessels entering the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence in 1887, with a summary of mackerel caught by them in said waters. 



(h) Quantity of salt mackerel packed in Portland during 1887, with percentage 

 caught in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



(i) Thirty-six original statements of owners and masters of vessels whose fishing 

 operations in 188G were interfered with by the action of the Canadian government. 

 This was additional to the list transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of State on 

 February 5, 1887. 



(J) Statement of the amount of salt clam bait shipped from the United States to 

 the British Provinces in 1886 and 1887. 



(k) Table showing the number of New England vessels engaged in the cod fisher- 

 ies that frequented grounds east of longitude 65° W., during the year 1886 ; together 

 with the locality where fishing and the kind of apparatus used. 



(1) Table showing the average catch per man and per vessel for 5 years, 1879, 1884, 

 1885, 1886, and 1887, of Gloucester vessels employed in the off-shore cod and in the 

 fresh halibut fisheries. 



(m) Table showing in detail, by States, the relative importance of the menhaden 

 fisheries during the years 1880 and 1886, respectively. 



