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taken from the Alleghany River at Tidioute, Pa., sixty miles below Sii- 

 lana, where shad were put in l>y Wm. Clift, in 1872, nnder direction of 

 the United States Fish Commission. 



1874. 



April 8, 1874. — The Germantowu Telegraph of this date, quoting from 

 the l^ew York Sun, says : 



" During the shad season on the Hudson, lasting from the 1st of April 

 till the middle of May, one million tish (shad) are usually taken, worth 

 about $300,000. 



" Fishing is begun along Sandy Hook ; and from there to Stapleton, 

 Staten Island, drift-nets are used. 



"From Stapleton to the Highlands stake-nets are employed. Poles 

 are set at regular intervals across the river, leaving room for vessels to 

 pass. To these poles gill-nets are fastened, and the fishes passing up 

 the river are caught. Above the Highlands drift-nets are used. Yery 

 few shad are caught above Hudson and Kinderhook, although a few 

 run to Troy. The nets have 5f-inch meshes. Higher up the river 

 smaller meshes are used. The nets are lifted every high water', and 

 thus the fish are caught going up the river with the tides. 



"Three years ago in the Hudson the fish were so run down that manj- 

 fishermen ga\e up fishing. The fishing has greatly imi)ro\'ed since the 

 expenditures in artificial breeding." 



May IG, 1874. — The Saint Paul Pioneer, of Minn., of this date, says: 



Captain Johns has in his possession the first shad sujjposed to be of 

 those placed in the Mississippi two or three years ago. It weighs 5 

 pounds 9 ounces, and is IS inches long. Mr. Williams states that thou- 

 sands of these fish are dancing around in the waters of the lake " (prob- 

 ably Pomolohus mediocris according to Milner). 



May 18, 1874. — Providence Press, R. I., says : " The shad catch is the 

 best this season that it has been for fifteen years. The results of shad 

 culture are beginning to be seen." 



Alay 25, 1873 or 1874. — Mr. Benjamin Shurtleff, Shasta, Cal., writes, 

 ]\Iay 20, to Hon. B. B. Redding, State fish commissioner, that on the 14th 

 instant Judge Hopping, \Ym. Jackson, and Jos. Brown caught a fish 

 in a net in the Sacramento River, at Jackson's Ferry, that was doubt, 

 less a shad. The fish was 12 inches in length, and weighed about a 

 pound. These gentlemen seemed to have more interest in trying the 

 flavor of their first shad from the Sacramento than of making the iden- 

 tity of the fish certain or of obtaining the $50 reward which was offered 

 by the State for the first shad taken. Judge Hoi)ping is a native of 

 Keyport, X. J., and familiar with the shad of the Raritan Bay and 

 River, while Jos. Brown is a native of Fall River, Mass., and claims to 

 know the shad thoroughly.— (Sacramento Daily Record.) 



May 26, 1874.— The Hartford Post, Conn., says : 



"The fact is, however, that shad are now more abundant and the 



