BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 427 



[No. 3.— Letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



There have been thirty arrivals from George's with light fares, aver- 

 aging 12,000 ponuds to a vessel; twelve sail from western bank with 

 good fares, averaging G0,000 to a vessel; six sail from the banks with 

 fresh halibnt, averaging 30,000 pounds to a vessel; 120,000 ponnds of 

 haddock have been landed this week. Haddock remain plenty in-shore. 

 The vessels carrying their fish fresh to market do not go farther than 

 middle bank. They get 10,000, 12,000, and 15,000 a day. The dories, 

 with one man, go one mile from the mouth of the harbor and bring 

 home from 400 to 600 pounds at 2 i5. m. This has not been done for 

 the last ten years. In the month of May there is a small school of 

 haddock comes inshore and stays about a week. This has been the case 

 for the last four years. The herring are more plentiful inshore than 

 they have been during the past fifteen years — I mean spring herring. 

 Eighty barrels were in a trap at Kettle Island on Friday night and 60 

 barrels last night. Schooner Phantom came in this morning with 60 bar- 

 rels canght with a seine four miles from the mouth of the harbor. The 

 herring caught ontside are large — as large as the spawn-herring caught 

 in the fall; those caught in the harbor are half-size. They sell as fast 

 as thcj' are received. The western bankers take 40 barrels, ^o bait 

 to be had on the !N^ova Scotia shore. The vessels carry their bait from 

 Gloucester. Herring sold this morning $2 per barrel. All kinds of fish 

 come nearer the shore this spring. Mackerel are close to the shore. 

 They have been caught eightmiles from the Delaware breakwater. The 

 price of fish, with the exception of mackerel, rule the same as last week. 

 Salt mackerel were sold Friday in Philadelphia for $6 per barrel. The 

 first sold for $8 per barrel. 



Gloucestee, Mass., Ajyril 30, 1882. 



GKOAVTH OF THE SATBLLVO (SAIilTIO SAL.VEt,INlTS) IIV THE OliD 



C01.01V1: troi;t po.'^fos AT pi.y:»iouth, iuassachisetts. 



By W. JL. GILBERT. 



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



I have some 400 Salmosalvelinus, which were hatched from the eggs 

 sent to me by Mr. Livingston Stone. (I did not get a fish from the eggs 

 which you sent me.) They are now from 6 inches to 8 inches long and 

 resemble our brook trout [Salmo fontinalis) very much. I have examined 

 them very closely and compared the two fishes together, and I fail to 

 see any difi'erence in their general appearance. I think they wiU spawn 

 next November. 



Old Colony Trout Ponds, 



Fly mouthy Mass., Ajyril 24, 1882. 



