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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Shipments of salmon from Portland, Oreg., to San 



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Jumping of Spanish mackerel. — Mr. Barnet Phillips, while in 

 the Gulf of Mexico, off west coast of Florida, 30 miles north of Tampa 

 Bay, January 27, 1884, wrote: 



" Last night a Spanish mackerel (Cybium maculatum), length 18 

 inches, jumped into the yawl-boat in tow." The captain says that often 

 at night a half a dozen of these fishes are caught in the same way. I 

 suppose the fish thinks the boat is an enemy and jumps to get out of 

 its way, 



