844 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Mackerel-scad 803 



Mackerel-shark 813 



Mackerel Cove 10 



Macruriche 785, 795 



Macrnroidea 785 



Macrurus 795 



Macy, Mr 7,9,30,47,163 



Magnosa 813 



Malacosteus 809 



Malaga, fishing in 1831 and 1861 .... 212 



Mallotus 810 



Malthe 792 



Maltheidte 784,792 



Maltheinse 784 



Man-eater 827 



Manta 812 



Marchant, Seth 190 



Marden, William C . 41 



Marketing of fish 217,218 



Marsipobranchii 791 



Martha's Vineyard 191 



Masachusetts, fisheries on the coast 117 

 inquiry as to decrease 



by viii 



Masticura 790 



Matajuelo 804,810 



Maurolicus 810 



Measures to in'omote increase of food- 

 fishes xxxiii 



Megalops 810 



Melanograramus 795, 284 



MelauospermesB 283,284 



Melobesia merabranacea 288 



farinosa 288 



pustulata 288 



polyrnorpha 294* 



Memorial of citizens of Hyannis to 



Congress 137 



Menemsha Bight 33, 35 



Menhaden 811,826 



Menhaden, distribution of 58 62 



size of.... 58,63 



abundance of. 11, 19, 21, 26, 33, 



40, 44, 46, 48, 49, 53, 58, 63, 69, 



70, 72. 176 



movements of. 29, 35, 44, 58, 63, 



68, 69 



spawning of. . .21, 48, 58, 63, 68 



food of 58,63 



economic value 11, 14, 17, 59, 63 



relationships of 58, 63, 68 



capture of 59, 63 



Menticirrus 805, 824 



Merlucmke 785,796 



Merluciinre * 785 



Merlucius 796, 824 



Merritt, Henry 86 



Metbuen,Mr 142 



Micristius 809 



Microgadus 795, 824 



Micropogon 805 



Microstoma 810 



Microstomidie 789,810 



Microstominse 789 



Middleton, Carman & Co 188 



Milner, J. W xii, xvii,264 



Misarkornak 795, 796 



Miscellaneous correspondence, &c 135 



Mishquammauquock 810 



Missuckeke-kequok 807 



Modes of capture 253 



Mola 792,823 



Mol acauthinas 784 



Molacanthus 792 



Molva 796 



Monaeanthinos J 784 



Monk-fish 792,813,823 



Mouomoy, weirs near 52 



Montauk 60 



Moon-fish 807 



silver 802 



Morone ...807,825 



Morrhua pruinosa, (tom-cod) 273 



Morton, Thomas ~ 154 



Moss-bunker 811 



Mouse-fish 792 



Mowry, Jabez W 109 



Mud-dab 794 



Mugil 808,825 



Mugiliche 788,808 



Mugiloidea 788 



Mullet 808,825 



MullidEe 787,804 



Mulloidea 787 



Mullus 804 



Mummickog 809,826 



Munnawhatteaug 811 



Muraenoides..... 797,798,824 



Murcielago 799 



Museums, specimens for xv 



facilities afforded officers 



of xv 



Mustelinse 790 



Mustelus 813,827 



Myliobatidre 790,812 



Myliobatiuoe 790 



•Myliobatis 812,826 



Myliobatoidea 790 



