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2. — Maine Salmon {Sabno salar L.). 



1873. 



May 0, 187.'). — The Germantown Telegraph of tliis date aunouuees the 

 capture of young salmou iu the Dekiware River at Easton, Pa. 



July 31, 1873. — The Germautown Telegraph of this date announces the 



fact that young salmon from 2 to 4 inches long are being caught daily 



in the Delaware in bait nets, and are returned to the river. One party, 



iu one day, caught over fifty. 



1874. 



May 23, 1874. — Hartford Times, Conn., states that a fine salmon weigh- 

 ing six and a half pounds was caught in a cove, two miles below this 

 city, by Francis Smith. The salmon was bought by a Mr. Cook and 

 divided among three of his customers at 75 cents a pound. 



September 18, 1874. — Mr. J. P. Creveling forwarded a salar or Maine 

 salmon 5 inches long (catalogue number, 13068), which was caught in the 

 Susqnehanna Elver at Marietta, Pa. 



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November 20, 1877. — Hon. H. J. Eeeder, a fish commissioner of the 

 State of Pennsylvania, forwarded an adult female salar salmon which 

 was canght in the Delaware Eiver in November, 1877. (Catalogue num- 

 ber of specimen, 207G3.) 



1878. 



January 14, 1878. — Dr. C. C. Abbot reports the capture, in the Dela- 

 ware Eiver at Trenton, of a salmon 10 inches long. 



April 25, 1878. — E. J. Anderson reports the capture at Salem, X. J., 

 on the Delaware, fifty miles from Philadelphia, of two fresh run salmon 

 weighing 22 and 18 pounds. 



May 2, 1878. — Benjamin & West, New York, received a salmon from 

 Saybrook, Conn., weighing 11 pounds. 



May 10, 1878.— S. B. Miller, Fulton Market, :N"ew York, reports the 

 capture of a salmon iu a pound in the sound, near the east end of Long- 

 Island, and of six or eight more taken in the Connecticut, two of them 

 eight miles from the mouth of the river. 



June — , 1878. — Caj^tain Potter caught between Narragansett Ferry 

 and Hickford a salmon weighing 11 pounds. 



July 3, 1878. — Chas. G. Atkins writes : 



"We have found two more tags of our salmon, and obtained the 

 record of the fish from which they were taken : Xo. 768, handled at our 

 pond Xovember 1, 1875, weighing 20 pounds 7 ounces, yielded us 5 

 pounds 7 ounces of eggs, dismissed weighing 15 pounds; caught at 

 Lincolnville, June 14, 1877, weighing 26 pounds. No. 1010, handled 

 at our pond November 9, 1875, weighing 18 pounds 2 ounces, yielded 

 4 pounds 10 ounces of eggs, and was dismissed weighing loh pounds. 

 Caught again June 13, 1877, at Lincolnville, weighing 30J pounds." 

 Bull. U. S. F. C, 81 14 March 13, 1 882. 



