200 ANNUAL KECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 

 OCCURRENCE OF THE rOMPANO NORTHWARD. 



Attention is called in the New York Herald of September 

 2 to the occurrence in the vicinity of New York of the pom- 

 pano, or crevalle (Trachyjiotus carolinus), a favorite delicacy 

 anion ir the fish of the South Atlantic and Gulf coast of the 

 United States, and its presence is connected with a supposed 

 increase of temperature in the waters of our shores, conse- 

 quent upon the driving inward of the Gulf Stream by the pre- 

 vailing southerly winds of this season. The range of this fish 

 for the present summer extends far to the east of New York, 

 quite considerable numbers having been taken in Vineyard 

 Sound and Buzzard's Bay. Although previously unknown 

 of so large a size, it was not entirely a stranger to these wa- 

 ters, isince it may be found in every season of moderate di- 

 mensions ; and as long ago as 1855, Professor Baird, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, in a report upon the fishes of New 

 Jersey, states that he had seen them taken by thousands in 

 the sandy coves of the outer beach near Beesley's Point. 

 These, however, w T ere all rather small, scarcely exceeding a 

 quarter to half a pound in weight. 



The Spanish mackerel, another fish to which the Herald 

 article refers, has also been known much longer than is gen- 

 erally supposed. Dr. Mitchill, in his work on the " Fishes of 

 New York," published in 1817, gives it as of occasional oc- 

 currence ; and it may be, after all, a question w T hether the 

 greater frequency with which it is now seen does not depend 

 on the improved methods of capture rather than upon any 

 great degree of difference in abundance. During the present 

 season it is less abundant on the New England coast, from 

 Newport to Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay, than last 

 year, although, to judge from the market price, it is taken 

 much more largely nearer New York. We are informed that 

 the price has ranged as low as ten cents a pound, while at 

 Newport it has retailed at a dollar and even more. It is 

 worth in the New Bedford market at the present time about 

 thirty-five cents. 



INCREASE OF SALMON IN THE BRITISH PROVINCES. 



It will interest our American sportsmen, who arc in the 

 habit of visiting the British provinces for the purpose of 



