BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 295 



45 SPAWNING OF ESOX (PIKE OR PICKER£l)IIV NORTH CAROLINA. 



By E. II. WALKE. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



I have been setting gill nets in Salmon Creek. Last Wednesday 

 morning I caught eight pike or pickerel, and four of them were ripe. I 

 tried to impregnate the eggs, but they had been dead too long. I hope 

 to be able to get some more ripe ones. I thought you would like to 

 know what time they spawned. 



Avoca, Bertie County, K. C, February 21, 1883. 



46.— SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION OF FISH BY ONE CAR DURING 



THE PAST SEASON. 



By ITIAKSHAl,!. McBOIVAM*. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



Mr. Moore's report on the season's work has just come in. The fol- 

 lowing summary will be of interest to you. The number of miles trav- 

 eled by car No. 1 in the carp, salmon, and shad distributions aggre- 

 gates 31,993. The number of shad distributed was 6,715,000, of herring 

 5,550,000, of carp 113,605, and of salmon 450,000. 



United States Fish Commission, August 8, 1883. 



47.-THE MOVEMENTS OF SCHOOLS OF MACKEREL.. 



I 

 By S. J. MARTIN. 



[From letters to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



The mackerel catchers along this coast are doing poorly. Mackerel 

 are plenty on the eastern shore, l>ut they are small ones, and mesh in the 

 seine, and before they can be picked out the dogfish destroy the net- 

 ting. Two vessels have come in with seines spoilt. There were five 

 vessels in Boothbay yesterday repairing their seines where the dog- 

 fish had eaten them. As I told you in my last letter, the large mackerel 

 come up once a week, stay one hour, and then sink. They are full of 

 feed. 



All the vessels which were in the Bay of Saint Lawrence came home 

 with full fares, and have all gone back agaiu. One vessel arrived from 

 the bay this morning with 450 barrels, which she caught in twelve days. 

 She reports that mackerel were abundant when she left. Two vessels 



