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Scyllium 60 
Sea-geese, abundance of • 231 
occurrence of. 221, 227, 258 
Seal fisheries, yield of 14 
Seal fishery, notes on 11 
result of 11 
Seal rocks, protection of 47 
Seal, William P 274, 283, 285 
Seals, capture of 12 
captured by British vessels 13 
destroying nets 81 
destructive to salmon . 124 
injurious to fishers 81 
protection of 47 
Sea-robins, abundance of 254 
Sea- weed fisheries of Prance 53, 55 
Selene gallus 131, 139 
Seriola zonata 131, 139 
Shad, abundance of 36 
catch in Connecticut 112 
deposited in Chesapeake Bay Ill 
distribution 97, 105, 107 
for Great Salt Lake 108 
from Cedar Keys 36 
in California 36, 48 
Ohio River 48 
occurrence of 16, 37 
planting of 16, 97 
production of 105 
waters stocked with 106, 107 
work at Battery Island 95 
of the Fish Hawk 83, 86 
Halcyon Ill 
Sharks, eggs of 60 
Sherman, R. IJ 29 
Ship aquaria 3 
advantages 5 
description of 4 
usefulness of 5 
Shortlidge, Dr. E.G 108 
Shrimps, abundance of 206 
as fish food 204, 213 
habitat of 206 
reproduction of 213 
Sierra 444 
Siphonophora 262 
Siphostoma fuscum 131, 134 
Skip-jack 440,441 
S. M. Bird, schooner 68 
Smiley, Charles W 28 
Smith, Everett 16, 202 
Smith, Hugh M 161 
Smith, J ames A 83 
Smith, John B 217, 260 
Smith, Joseph 246, 248 
Smith, S. I 217,260 
Smith, W. Anderson 41 
Snakes enemies to carp 44 
Solenostoma 60 
Soles buried in sand 5 
catching of 6 
disposition of 3 
introduction into America 1 
loss in transportation 2 
planting of 3 
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Soles, transportation of 3 
Southwell, Thomas 11 
Spanish beam -trawl fishery 399 
mackerel 432,443 
Sparisoma 131,137 
Sphyrsena borealis 132, 145 
picuda 130, 132, 145 
Sphyrna zygsena 130, 132. 151 
Spirialis 262 
occurrence of 260 
Sponge adulteration 23 
fisheries of Elorida 22 
preparing for market 23 
Sponges, varieties of 22 
Spring River, rainbow trout in 55 
Spurling, Captain 248 
Squalus acanthias .254, 255 
Squid as food 127 
Star, wreck of 14 
Starfish, fatal injury by 34 
State dam 422 
Statistics of British Columbia fisheries ... 24, 159 
French fisheries 55 
Gloucester fisheries 67-80 
Great Lake fisheries 7 
lobster fishery 459, 460, 461 
menhaden fishery 462 
Hew England fisheries. 452, 453, 
455, 456, 459, 460, 461 
shad catch 112 
distribution 105 
striped bass industry 194 
vessel fisheries 447 
Steelman, Bolton E 129 
Steelman, Thomas 234, 252, 253 
Stenotomus chrysops 132, 142, 256 
Stillwater dam 421 
S til well, E. M 108 
Stizostedium canadense 36 
salmoneum 36 
vitreum 36 
Stockport, salmon taken at 416 
Stolephorus browni 132, 149 
eurystole 132, 150 
mitchilli 132, 149 
Stone, Livingston 65 
Story, Arthur D 44 
Striped bass, catch of 195 
fishery, boats employed in . . . 194 
owners of 194 
statistics of 193, 194 
for San Francisco Bay 50 
in California 48 
industry 193 
failure of 196 
occurrence of 35,50 
Studor, Henry 29 
Sturgeon, destruction of 35 
fishing by Chinese ." 35 
Surface organisms, list of 263 
Susquehanna River shad work 84,85 
Suttar, Captain 15 
Swaledale trout 31 
Swan, J ames G 34 
Sweeny, R. O - 29 
