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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
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Mud Minnow 184 
Shad 183 
Muffle-jaw 187 
Mullet 182 
Brine-salted 457 
Dry-salted 412 
Koes salted 547 
Smoked 50e 
Mummichog 184 
Mussel Farming 288 
Fishery and Pearl-button Industry of Missis- 
sippi Kiver 289-314 
Mussels, Fresh-water, of United States 279-288 
Pickled 473 
Utilized in Button-making 289 
Mya arenaria 519, 552 
Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus 19U 
Haha Bay and Stream 92, 95 
Naiades or Pearly Fresh- water Mussels 278-288 
Naknek Packing Company 17 
River 175 
Necker Bay 120 
Needle-fish 185 
Neoliparis callyodon 192 
rutteri 192 
New England Process of Brine-salting 452 
Smoking River Herring 490 
Newfoundland Split Herring 487 
Nihlack Anchorage 82 
Nichols Bay and Tributaries 70, 71 
Nielsen, Adolph, on Brine-salting Herring 441-446 
Curing Codfish 407 
Shipping Live Lobsters toEurope. 352 
Smoking Hard Herring 483 
Niggerhead Mussels 290 
Nine-spined Stickleback 189 
North Carolina, Brine-salted Mullet in 457 
North Pacific Trading and Packing Company 16 
North Truro, Mass., Frozen Herring Plant 388 
Northeast Harbor 147 
Northern Packing Company 17, 141 
Northwest Trading Company 121 
Norwegian Cod Caviar 548 
Cure of Herring 443,468 
Herring 441 
Method of Curing Codfish 407 
Sardines 535 
Stockfish 410 
Notemigonus crysoleucas 182 
Notropis analostanus 183 
cornutus 183 
hudsonius amarus 182 
photogenis 183 
procne 182 
Nova Scotia, Smoking Salmon in. .1 495 
Nushagak Packing Company 17, 173 
Nutqua Inlet 73 
“ Ocean Trout ” Canned 538 
Odiak 130 
Offal in Karluk River 157 
O’Hara Bay 121,128 
Oil in Sardine Canning 527, 528, 531 
from Herring 124 
Old Sitka, Cannery at 16 
Oligocottus maculosus 190 
Olsen Bay 121,128 
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha 5, 455, 512 
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Oncorhynchus haberi 513 
keta 5 
kisutch 5, 455, 512 
nerka 5, 455, 512 
perryii 513 
tschawytscha 5, 455, 512 
Open-air Freezing of Fish 368 
Opsanus tau 187 
Orthopristis chrysopterus 187 
Osbeck, Peter 275 
Osborn, H. L 287 
Oswego Bass 186 
Output of Alaska Salmon Canneries 51-53 
Karluk Canneries 149 
Overland Transportation of Live Fish 348 
Oxycottus acuticeps 191 
Oyster Canning 516-519 
Crabs Pickled 472 
Trade on Pacific Coast 355 
Tubs 367 
Oysters Canned 540 
Cold Storage of 382 
Dried by Chinese 416 
Extracts of 553-556 
Icing 366 
Pickled 472 
Shipped Alive 353-356 
Vitality of 355 
Wiring of 355 
Pacific Coast Oyster Planting 355 
Product of Canned Salmon 513 
Salmon Canning 512-516 
Sardine Canning 532-533 
Packing Company 17, 130 
Steam Whaling Company 17, 18, 21, 68, 131 
Package Tubs for Oysters 367 
Packing Boneless Codfish in “Bricks ” 403^05 
Herring 445 
Salt Cod 393 
Paechel Berlinite 562 
Pagliare Process of Preserving Fish 562 
Palmer, Thomas W., on Spring Mackerel Fishery. 229, 230, 
231, 232, 236, 237, 240, 242, 246, 
247, 248, 249, 253, 254, 255, 256 
Pan-Freezing, Origin of 372 
Pans used in Freezing Fish 377 
Panulirus interruptus 416 
‘ ‘ Pastes ’’ made from Fish 553 
Pearl-button Industry and Mussel Fishery of Missis- 
sippi River, Hugh M. Smith on 289-314 
Pearly Fresh- water Mussels of the United States, 
Charles T. Simpson on 279-288 
Pecten magellanicus 539 
“Peeler” Crabs 356 
Peninsula Trading and Fishing Company. . .■ 17 
Perea flavescens 180 
Perch Brine-salted 464 
Caviar from Eggs of 545 
Cold Storage of 382 
Preserved Alive 340 
Percina caprodes 186 
Percopsis guttatus 185 
Peripheral Nervous System of Bony Fishes 315-320 
Petromyzon marinus 180 
Pholis ornatus 192 
Pickerel Canned 540 
Pickle-cured Fish 396 
