American Fisheries: A History of the Menhaden

George Brown Goode

Orange Judd, 1880 - Menhaden fisheries - 529 pages

Contents

• Object of the memoir: 1
• distribution: 7
• Brevoortia patronus: 17
• Page: 18
• A DESCRIPTION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF BREVOORTIA WITH ANATOMICAL: 19
• Alewife and oldwife: 26
• Geographical DISTRIBUTION AND THE MOVEMENTS OF THE SCHOOLS: 35
• SECTION K THE MENHADEN AS A SOURCE OF FOODContinued: 36
• A DESCRIPTION OF THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF BREVOORTIA WITH ANATOMICAL: 62
• SECTION H THE ENEMIES AND FATALITIES OF THE MENHADEN: 101
• Inferences to be drawn from the presence of these parasites: 103
• Other parasites: 104
• The destructiveness of sharks: 105
• Ravages of the bluefish and the bonito: 106
• The menhaden driven upon the shores: 107
• Captain Spindels account of the ravages of the bluefish: 108
• An estimate of the number of menbaden annually consumed by predaceous fish: 109
• Man and the fisheries: 110
• Comments upon these allegations: 111
• Professor Hinds unwarranted statements: 112
• THE MENIADEN FISHERIES: 113
• Difficulty experienced in obtaining statistics: 114
• Fisheries in Maine: 115
• Fisheries in Connecticut: 116
• Fisheries in Virginia and North Carolina: 117
• The seineboats: 120
• The sailingvessels See also Appendix I: 122
• Certain requirements of purseseine fishing: 123
• The best time of day for using the purseseine: 124
• Fishing on the coast of Massachusetts: 125
• Fishing on the coast of Maine: 126
• Gillnet fishing on the coast of Maine: 128
• Weir fishing for menhaden: 129
• Fishing for fatbacks in North Carolina: 131
• The menhaden fishery and land industries: 132
• Laws regulating the menhaden fishery of Massachusetts: 133
• SUPERSECTION ECONOMICAL VALUE AND APPLICATIONS OF THE MENHADEN: 135
• Menhaden salted See also Appendix G: 136
• SECTION LTHE MENHADEN AS A BAITFISH: 141
• THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL AND GUANOContinued 43 Methods of manufactureContinued: 162
• The factory of Judson Tarr Co: 171
• The factory of Joseph Church Co: 172
• The factory at Napeague N Y: 173
• The model of the factory of Joseph Church Co: 174
• Organization of the fishing gangs: 176
• Mr Goodales improved method for extracting the oil: 177
• Proposed chemical method: 178
• Prices proportionate to amount of oil to be obtained from the fish: 180
• Oilyield of southern fish: 183
• Statistics of the manufacture of oil and guano: 184
• Returns for the United States: 187
• Comparative yield of oil from the menhaden and whale fisheries: 190
• Comparative yield of nitrogen from the men hadenfactories and from the imports of birdguano: 191
• The markets for menhaden oil: 192
• Reviews of the market for individual years: 193
• SECTION N MENHADEN AND OTHER FISH AND THEIR PRODUCTS as related to agriculture By W O Atwater See also Appendix O: 194
• Menhaden in a fresh state used as a fertilizer: 195
• Use at beginning of present century and later: 196
• Use at present day: 200
• Experience in Connecticut Mr Clift: 201
• Experience of Mr Hall and Mr Loveland: 203
• Statements of Professor Cook of New Jersey: 205
• Other testimony: 208
• Early manufacture in Rhode Island: 209
• Manufacture in Canada: 210
• Early manufacture in France: 212
• Early manufacture in England: 213
• The Norwegian fishguano: 214
• Manufacture of glue and removal of oil in preparation of fish guanos: 217
• Success of fishguano as a fertilizer in Europe: 218
• Kinds of fertilizers made from fish refuse: 219
• lishguano methods of manufacture and needs of improvement statements of Professor Goessmann: 223
• Goodales new process: 224
• Adamsons process: 225
• Immense waste of fish at present Possibilities of future manufacture: 226
• Manufacture of ammoniated superphosphates: 227
• Chemical composition of menhaden and other fish and of fish manures: 228
• Analyses of whole menhaden and of flesh and bones of whale אכפ 299 Analyses of fish fertilizers: 229
• Waste from faulty manufacture and use of fish fertilizers: 230
• Essential ingredients of plant food: 231
• Ingredients commonly lacking in wornout soils and hence most important in ferti lizers: 233
• Explanation of chemical terms used in fertilizer analyses: 234
• Valuations of commercial fertilizers See also Appendix O: 235
• 137: 243
• Relative values of different fertilizers Fish and Peruvian guano: 244
• Ways of improving fieh manure fermentation: 247
• Feeding to stock: 248
• 313 Danger in using fish fertilizers alone: 249
• Fish as food for domestic animals: 250
• General principles of feeding maintenance and production: 251
• Digestion of foods by animals as tested by European experiments: 254
• What is essential to economy in feeding Proportions of albuminoids and carbo hydrates: 255
• Composition and valuations of various food materials German tables: 256
• Early experience in use of fish as food for stock Feeding cattle on fish in Massa chusetts: 258
• Other European experience: 259
• Experiment of Professor Farrington on fish scrap vs cornmeal for sheep: 260
• European experiments on digestion and nutritive value of fish: 263
• General conclusions: 264
• Recapitulation: 265
• Fish as food for stock: 266
• APPENDIX A Circular relating to statistics of the menhaden fishery: 268
• APPENDIX B List of correspondents from whom contributions have been received: 271
• Bibliography of literature relating to the menhaden: 274
• 138: 277
• Extracts from writings of ichthyologists relating to the menhaden: 279
• From Mitchills Fishes of New York Transactions of Literary and Philosophical Society of New York 1815 p 453: 282
• From Storers History of the Fishes of Massachusetts 1867 p 168: 283
• From Dekays Zoology of New York Fishes 1842 p 259: 286
• From Uhler and Luggers List of the Fishes of Maryland 1876 p 133: 287
• From Günthers Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum VII p 436: 288
• APPENDIX ECatalogue of specimens in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of the menhaden: 289
• APPENDIX F Tables of ocean temperatures for certain points on the east coast of the United: 291
• Partial list of vessels employed in the menhaden fishery: 297
• Proceedings of the United States Menhaden Oil and Guano Association: 358
• 139: 364
• Annual reports of menhaden oil and guano manufacturers in the State of Maine: 368
• 140: 370
• APPENDIX N Statements of correspondentsContinued: 373
• collector Belfast Me: 375
• Migrations of fishes in general and the causes: 382
• Statement of William Atwood lighthouse keeper Plymouth Mass February: 404
• Stay of the schools on the south shore of Cape: 407
• Statement of David F Loring Cape Cod lightstation North Truro Mass February 23 1875: 409
• Statement of Josiah Hardy 2d Chatham Mass February 17 1874 and January: 410
• Statement of Alonzo Y Lothrop Hyannis Mass February 18 1874 and January: 412
• Statement of William S Allen Nantucket Mass January 1875: 413
• Statement of R C Kenney Nantucket Mass January 21 1874: 414
• Statement of C B Marchant collector of customs Edgartown Mass January: 416
• Statement of Jason Luce Co North Tisbury Mass January 6 1875: 417
• Statement of Luce Brothers East Lyme December 4 1877: 418
• Migrations See also Appendix: 423
• Statement of E T De Blois Portsmouth R I November 26 1877: 425
• Statement of J S Crandall Watch Hill R I February 20 1874 and January: 427
• Statement of William H Potter Mystic River Conn January 27 1874: 428
• Statement of John Washington Mystic Conn December 30 1874: 430
• Statement of Leander Wilcox Mystic Bridge Conn January 15 1875: 431
• Statement of Samuel C Beebe Cornfield Point lightvessel No 12 Saybrook Conn January 6 1875: 432
• Statement of R E Ingham Saybrook lighthouse Saybrook Conn March 17 1874: 433
• Statement of J L Stokes Westbrook Conn February 25 1875: 435
• Statement of B Lillingston Stratford Conn February 23 1874: 437
• Statement of W S Havens Sag Harbor N Y January 1 1875: 441
• Statement of Hawkins Brothers Jamesport N Y February 25 1875: 443
• Statement of Benjamin H Sisson Greenport R I January 29 1874: 445
• Statement of David G Vail River Head Long Island March 20 1875: 447
• Statement of Joseph Whaley Point Judith light Point Judith R I December: 449
• Statement of A G Wolf Absecom light Atlantic City N J March 6 1874: 450
• Statement of Albert Morris Somers Point N J January 12 1875: 451
• Statement of D E Foster Cape May lighthouse N J February 15 1875: 453
• Statement of James H Bell Mispillion River Delaware Bay January 23 1875: 454
• Statement of Benjamin Tice Maurice River light January 11 1875: 457
• Statement of Hance Lawson Crisfield Md January 22 1874: 458
• Statement of Isaac D Robbins Hog Island February 21 1874: 460
• Statement of G Henry Seldon Kinsale Westmoreland County Va August 1874: 461
• Statement of Henry Richardson Cape Henry February 9 1874: 464
• Statement of C G Manning Edenton N C January 6 1875: 465
• The movements of the schools of menhaden: 469
• Statement of A W Simpson jr Cape Hatteras N C January 20 1875: 470
• G8 Statement of A W Simpson jr Cape Hatteras N C January 25 1875: 471
• Statement of Wallace R Jennett Cape Hatteras N C February 26 1874: 474
• Statement of A C Davis Beaufort N C February 14 1874 and January 27 1875: 475
• Statement of W T Hatsel Bodys Island N C March 4 1874 and February 23 1875: 477
• Statement of W A Harn Morris Island S C January 21 1875: 478
• Statement of George Gage Beaufort S C January 20 1874: 479
• Statement of J F Hall Brunswick Ga April 11 1876: 481
• Statement of Charles Koch Jacksonville Fla January 15 1874: 482
• Statement of D P Kane Matagorda Texas March 1 1874: 483
• Letter from C A Goessman on the agricultural value of menhaden fertilizers: 485
• A description of the factory of the Pacific Guano Company at Woods Holl Mass: 487
• The Cumberland Bone Companys works: 491
• The Quinnipiac Fertilizer Companys works: 492
• The Crowell Manufacturing Company: 493
• Method of calculating costs of valuable ingredients of fertilizers By W O Atwater: 495
• Improved methods of drying fishscrap: 502
• APPENDIX P Exports of menhaden oil from the port of New York from January 1875 to July 1878: 503
• 141: 504
• APPENDIX Q Supplementary works September 22 1878: 506
• The spawning grounds of the menhaden: 507
• Menhaden fishing on a Long Island steamer By Ernest Ingersoll: 508
• The manufacture of sardines from menhaden: 512
• Small oiltrying in Maine 1860: 513
• The use of fish for manure by the early colonists of Massachusetts: 514
• Brevoortia pectinata Jenyns Gill: 515
• Alphabetical index: 519

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Fisheries: A History of the Menhaden
• Author: George Brown Goode
• Publisher: Orange Judd, 1880
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Dec 17, 2008
• Length: 529 pages