BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 13 



2.— REPORT UPOiN THE SHAD AND HERRIIVO F18BERIES OF TBE 



POTOMAC RITER FOR 1883. 



By OTVFNN HARRIS. 



Number of shad landed at Wasbington 257, 687 



^^umber of shad landed at Alexandria, Va 81, 429 



Number of shad landed at Georgetown 2, 200 



Number of shad shij^ped from Glymont 14, 250 



Number of shad shipped from Kinsale, Ya 4, 100 



Number of shad shipped from Cone Elver 3, 450 



Number of shad sold on the different shores . . : 16, 700 



Total number 379, 816 



Number of herring landed at Washington 4, 914, 261 



Number of herring landed at Alexandria, Va 2, 331, 000 



Number of herring landed at Georgetown 360, 000 



Number of herring shii)ped from Piney Point 78, 000 



Number of herring shipped from Kinsale 24, 000 



Number of herring shipped from Cone River 32, 000 



Number of herring sold on different shores and trap nets ... 1, 250, 000 



Total 8,989,261 



Note by Marshall McDonald. — The herring product is about the 

 same as that for 1882 ; probably a little in excess of that year. The 

 shad figures indicate a decrease of 70,000 as compared with last year, 

 but I infer from Capt. Wood's report in regard to the Chesapeake, that 

 this deficiency in the Potomac was compensated for three or four times 

 over by the increased catch of pound-nets in the bay. 



3.— OCCURRENCE OF BAI.1STES VETUI.A ON TBE NEW JERSEY 



COAWT. 



By J. H. VAX MATER, M. D. 



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



Mr. J. B. Swan, light-keeper of Conover Beacon, near this place, re- 

 cently picked up on the beach a fish the like of which no one here had 

 ever seen. I inclose a rough sketch and description of the same.* 



Atlantic Highlands, N. J., October 29, 1883. 



* From the description given by Dr. Van Mater, the fish has been identified by Dr. 

 Tarleton H. Bean as Balistes vetula, which he eaye is rather rare on our coast. — C. W. S. 



