Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England, Part 22U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - Fisheries |
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abundant Albatross Apalachicola Apparatus and waters average Big Stone Lake Black bass boats bottom Brook trout buffalo-fish Bulletin Calm canneries Carp catch Catfish caught cents chinook coast Columbia County Creek Eastport eggs employed feet fisheries fishermen Florida food-fishes fresh Fyke nets gill nets Grand Manan Grand total haddock Hand lines Harbor hatched hogsheads important inches Indian River industry Inlet Island Kankakee River Key West large numbers Linnæus lobster Lubec miles Miscellaneous lakes Mississippi River Missouri River mouth mullet North Ohio River oysters Pacific packed pike pompano Pond pounds quantity Quoddy Rainbow trout reef Report Rock bass salmon salted sardines season Set lines shad sheepshead shells shore snapper South spawning species specimens sponges station steamer Steelhead Sturgeon Suckers Table showing taken temperature Titusville Total by waters Trammel nets turtles Value vessels vicinity Washington weirs Whitefish winter yield
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Page 486 - SEC. 7. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Page 283 - In our seining about the island this was the species most frequently taken, particularly on sandy shores. At Key West it is the most abundant of all the food-fishes, and is caught all the year round, the best season being during the fall. Their spawning season is during August and September, at which time they gather up into schools on shoal, feathery, rock bottom, where they spawn. Each roe is from 1 to 2 inches in length. The eggs are said to be " gritty ' ' to the touch and about the size of a...
Page 347 - An exposition of the principles of a rational system of oyster culture, together with an account of a new and practical method of obtaining oyster sprat on a scale of commercial importance.
Page 353 - Notes on a reconnaissance of the fisheries of the Pacific coast of the United States in 1894, by Hugh M.
Page 221 - SEC. 3. Any person, body corporate, agent, manager, or employer, who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 111 - July they swim at the surface. During this time and until the fourth stage is reached immense numbers are devoured by surface-swimming fish and other animals. Herrick states that a survival of two in every 10,000 larvae hatched would maintain the species at an equilibrium, and the destruction of the young under the present conditions of the fishery is probably even greater than this implies.
Page 485 - ... debt, one.half to the complainant, or prosecutor, and one-half to the town in which the offense is committed.
Page 221 - ... shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days or by fine not exceeding twenty dollars.
Page 346 - Ag.; its natural history and artificial propagation, with an account of the origin and development of the fishery.
Page 220 - ... 1906, || 643, 644. This statute does not relate to planting oyster beds. To develop resources and encourage industries the state by statute provides for granting limited privileges to Individuals to plant oysters in the public waters of the state. The statute provides that such rights shall not obstruct or Interfere with the navigation of any of the navigable waters of the state, and also provides that all the existing natural or maternal oyster beds in the waters of the state are exempt from...