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said that they had never seen mackerel in the water off Now York, ex- 

 cept in the spring, when the fish were moving north. 



The Herjiward stood in to the land, and went into Sandy Hook, where 

 she lay until ^N'ovember 13, the weather in the mean time being too 

 rough for the prosecution of further researches. Leaving the Hook on 

 the 13th, she ran down the south side of Long Island, at a distance from 

 the land of 3 to a miles. The wind was blowing strong from the west- 

 ward at the time, and no fish were seen ; indeed, there would have been 

 little probability of seeing any in such weather, if mackerel liad been 

 l^lenty in the locality. I^o further attempt was made to find fish, for 

 C.iptaiu Burnham came directly home to Grloucester, and gave up 

 mackerel fishing for the season. 



Gloucester, Mass., December 11, 1883. 



ir.-DEPliETION OF FISBI IN PAIVGUITCH A1V» BOAR t,AI£ES, 



IJTAIff. 



By A!¥DREW L. SILSH. 



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



I intend devoting *lie most of my time to fish-growing, as it is only 

 a. question of time, and that, at the present rate of depletion, a very 

 short time, when the food-fishes inhabiting our waters will become so 

 scarce that they will not be found in our markets. In Panguitch Lake, 

 near this place, the fish are being rapidly exhausted, although the fish- 

 ermen that fish that hody of water say tbat the fish are as plenty as 

 they were ten years ago ; but at present the average Aveight of the fish 

 caught out of that lake is 1 pound, while the fish caught eight or ten 

 years ago averaged 3 pounds. 



The time is very near at hand when, if we have fish from Panguitch 

 Lake, we will have to restock it with Schoodic (or land-locked) salmon 

 or white fish, or both. 



I add an extract from the Deseret Kews in regard to the fish of Bear 

 Lake. Tbe same thing that has taken place there will certainly take 

 place in the lakes of Utah unless our Territorial legislature takes steps 

 to restock our waters. 



"The famed Bear Lake covers some I'O square miles, and washes on 

 three si<les the rolling hills. It used to be full of finny beauties, splendid 

 speckled trout. Sojue weighing nearly 20 pounds have come from there ; 

 but, alas, through unlawful methods and at unseasonable as well as sea- 

 sonable times, is now only a pleasant memory of the past. Mullet and 

 suckers roam the unfathomed depths and glide in the tributaries and 

 outlet of the lake." 



Hillsdale, CTtah, January 21, 1884. 



