BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 271 



iN'EW Bedford, Mass., June 1, 1879. 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird: 



Sir : I received yours. I have examined carefully since your letter, 

 but no salmon bare been taken. The ran was about the two first weeks 

 in IMay and a few the last of April. Mr. Bassett had about 30 to 35 

 from the trap at Menimpsha, and 10 or 12 from Scohticut Neck, 

 mouth of our river. Mr. Bartlett, at his fish market, had about one 

 dozen ; 12 from the traps near the mouth of Slocum's Eiver, six miles 

 west of here, and I have heard of two taken at mouth of Westport Eiver. 

 As to the particular species, I do not get any reliable information, as so 

 few of our fishermen know anything about salmon, and in fact the men 

 from the traps on Sconticut Neck did not know what the fish were, 



JOHN H. THOMSON. 



FISHING ITEMS. 



The squid fishery from this port has thus far proved a failure. There 

 have been five arrivals with but a few barrels. Schooner Crest of the 

 Wave is high-line, she having succeeded in obtaining fifty barrels. 



A ten-pound salmon and seventeen tautog, weighing over one hun- 

 dred pounds, were taken from the weirs of Magnolia, Thursday night. 

 This is the first salmon caught off Cape Ann for over thirty years. On 

 Saturday morning three more large salinon were taken and 150 large 

 mackerel. The fishermen are highly elated at the prospect of salmon 

 cat<3hing. — (Cape Ann Advertiser, June 6, 1879.) 



[Po8tscrii)t to a letter from Monroe A. Greeu, New York State Fishery Commission, to 



Fred Mather, June 9, 1879. ] 



" P. S. — Kennebec salmon caught to-day in the Hudson Eiver at Bath 

 near Albany we'ighing twelve and a half pounds, sold for 40 cents per 

 pound. The first that have been caught for years." 



State of Maine, Department of Fisheries, 



Bangor^ August 25, 1879. 



[Extracts.] 



Dear Professor : * * * We have had a great run of salmon 

 this year, and consisting largely of fish planted by us in the Penobscot 

 four or five years ago, so far as we could judge; there were a very large 

 number, running from 9 to 12 pounds. The east and west branches of 

 the Penobscot report a great many fish in the river. On the Matta- 

 wamkeag, where we put in 250,000 and upwards, in 1875 and 1870, a 

 great many salmon are reported trying to get over the lower dam at 



