BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 421 



THE CAPTURE OF $^HAI> AT ISL.ES OF SHOAIiS, 1¥E\V HAinPSHIRE. 



BY CEDRIC tAKiHTOW. 



I have just arrived home, and the first thing I have done was to make 

 inquiries in regard to the shad. Haley, our head boatman, assures me 

 that it is a fact that the shad were taken here last August. He informs 

 me that Josiah Eandall took them in his seine oft" Lounging Island to 

 the number of 10 barrels the latter part of last August. Jim Haley 

 also informs me that Samuel Itobinson, in the schooner Can't Come It, 

 some years ago off' York Beach, in August, took over 90 barrels of shad 

 in his seine. 



Appledore House, 



Mes of Shoals, Portsmouth, N. H., April 3, 1882. 



THE IIVTR©»IJ€TION OF I.AIVD-l, »€KBD SAl.]«OIV INTO WOODHUl,!, 



ILACiLE, NEll \ORS£, AiXD TME SUBSEQUEIVT CAPTURE OF J40?IE 

 OF TUE31. 



BY SETH GREEIV. 



[Letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



Two years ago I sent 9,000 land-locked salmon to Bisby Lake, in the 

 north woods. When they got to Woodhull Lake it was dark; the carry 

 from there was over a rough road, and the cans had to be carried on 

 the men's backs the rest of the journey. They built a fire and camped 

 on the shore of the lake. The weather was very warm and their ice was 

 gone ; the water got so warm that the fish began to sufi'er and they saw 

 they were going to lose them. Thej' rowed them out in the middle of 

 the lake and put them in the lake. I did not expect to hear from them 

 again, as they Avere, many of them, in bad condition, and I did not think 

 the lake a very favorable one for that kind of fish. 



Last week there was a guide here from the Bisby Lakes to get young 

 fish ; he said they were taking a good many land-locked salmon in the 

 Woodhull Lake. One man caught five in one day. They are 18 inches 

 long, and weigh one and one-half pounds each. I saw one of them, and 

 it was a fine and well-fed fish. This is the first we have heard of the 

 land-locked salmon that we have planted. But now I am sure we will 

 hear from more of them. There may be plenty of them in the waters 

 that we have put them in, and no one has fished for them that knew how 

 to take them. I expect to try some of the waters this season, and have 

 no doubt will take them and teach the people how, and give a good 

 report. 



Xew York State Fishery Co^oiission, 



Office of the Siqyerintendent, Rochester, Ajjril 22, 1882. 



