Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission Volume 4 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... of halibut to a vessel; five arrivals with fresh halibut, averaging 40,000 pounds to a vessel; twelve arrivals with pollock, aggregating 455,000 pounds; and nine arrivals with salt mackerel, landing 1,374 barrels. Seven arrivals from the shore fisheries landed 140,000 pounds of mixed fish. The pollock were caught with seine from 3 to 4 miles off Chatham. The first mackerel that were caught last year this aide of Cape Cod was on May 18. On May 14 of this year 20 barrels of large mackerel were caught with seine.' Herring And Salmon.--There have been 70 bairels of herring caught in traps, and 1 salmon, weighing 12f pounds, caught in a trap at Kettle Island. Gloucester, Mass., May 18, 1884. Black Grouper.--I will send you Monday morning for identification a strange fish, said to measure 5 feet in length, but actually measuring over 6 feet. The fish when seen was on its side, with its side fin at the surface of the water, and was thought to be a sunfish. It was easily captured. No one of the hundreds of persons who have been here to see the fish have been able to identify its genus and species. I hope to hear from you concerning its identity. Gloucester, Mass., May 18,1884. The strange fish was caught 20 miles southeast from Block Island. The fish when seen was on its side with side-fiu and tail in motion. When seen the men thought it was a sunfish;' they rowed up to it in a dory, threw a harpoon into it, and towed it alongside the vessel, where it was taken on board and put in the ice-house. The fish was caught Thursday, May 15, schooner Carrie E. Parsons, Capt. Albert Greenlow. There is no expense on the fish except the box. The Atlantic Halibut Company gave me the ice. The captain asked me if I could get him the history of the mackerel fishery and one of the...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... of halibut to a vessel; five arrivals with fresh halibut, averaging 40,000 pounds to a vessel; twelve arrivals with pollock, aggregating 455,000 pounds; and nine arrivals with salt mackerel, landing 1,374 barrels. Seven arrivals from the shore fisheries landed 140,000 pounds of mixed fish. The pollock were caught with seine from 3 to 4 miles off Chatham. The first mackerel that were caught last year this aide of Cape Cod was on May 18. On May 14 of this year 20 barrels of large mackerel were caught with seine.' Herring And Salmon.--There have been 70 bairels of herring caught in traps, and 1 salmon, weighing 12f pounds, caught in a trap at Kettle Island. Gloucester, Mass., May 18, 1884. Black Grouper.--I will send you Monday morning for identification a strange fish, said to measure 5 feet in length, but actually measuring over 6 feet. The fish when seen was on its side, with its side fin at the surface of the water, and was thought to be a sunfish. It was easily captured. No one of the hundreds of persons who have been here to see the fish have been able to identify its genus and species. I hope to hear from you concerning its identity. Gloucester, Mass., May 18,1884. The strange fish was caught 20 miles southeast from Block Island. The fish when seen was on its side with side-fiu and tail in motion. When seen the men thought it was a sunfish;' they rowed up to it in a dory, threw a harpoon into it, and towed it alongside the vessel, where it was taken on board and put in the ice-house. The fish was caught Thursday, May 15, schooner Carrie E. Parsons, Capt. Albert Greenlow. There is no expense on the fish except the box. The Atlantic Halibut Company gave me the ice. The captain asked me if I could get him the history of the mackerel fishery and one of the...

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 12mm (L x W x T)

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222

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978-1-153-35871-2

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9781153358712

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