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yacht. I went fco examine her this forenoon and I was ranch pleased 

 with her. Captain Martin has named this littlegemof a vessel the 'Spen- 

 i-er F. Baird.' As she is the first vessel of her size buill here expressly 

 to experiment and develop our fisheries, 1 told Captain Martin 1 thought 

 her name a felicitous one, of good omen to his little craft, and 1 trust he 

 maybe so successful in his fisheries that he may indnce others to engage 

 in this industry, and the little schooner Spencer F. Baird be the begin- 

 ning of an enterprise which may develop into large proportions. 

 •"True cod have appeared in large numbers in Port Angeles harbor, 

 a rather unusual thing. 1 think they will be in Port Townsend Bay in 

 a few weeks." 



FisHWAYS REQUIRED in Illinois.— An important fishway case, of 

 which a resume will be found on pages 266-268 of the P. C. Bulletin for 

 1883, has been decided in favor of the people of the State of Illinois. 

 The decision establishes the requirement that every person who builds a 

 dam or other obstruction across a stream in that State must erect a 

 suitable fishway over the same. 



Statistics of Gloucester, Mass., for 1884. — In 1884 the number 

 of vessels fishing from this port was 473, of 30,283 tonnage, employing 

 6,436 men ; capital invested in vessels and outfits, $2,125,000. The 

 leading products for that year were 186,029 inspected barrels of mack- 

 erel, of $1,175,000 value; 553,063 quintals, equal to 61,943,056 pounds, 

 of codfish, valued at $1,984,000; 9,029,265 pounds of halibut, of 

 $541,665.90 value. The haddock fleet landed some 50,000,000 pounds 

 of fish, mostly sold fresh. Of the amount and value of fish-oil we have 

 no statistics on hand. Total investments in the fisheries, $4,759,000. 

 (Cape Ann Breeze, May 9, 1885.) 



Note from the McCloud River Station. — Mr. Loren W. Green, 

 writing under date of August 5, 1885, says : " Salmon are very scarce 

 in McCloud, Pitt, and Sacramento Eivers. The Hat Creek hatchery 

 has taken no eggs as yet, and prospects are that they will take but 

 very few, if any, as all salmon reaching Hat Creek must pass up Pitt 

 River, and no salmon are seen in the Pitt as yet. Indians on the Mc- 

 Cloud have never seen the scarcity of salmon compare with this season. 

 Our trout here in the ponds are doing very well. The summer is very 

 dry; water very low ; thermometer ranging between 95° and 108° in 

 the shade." 



The Gloucester mackerel-fishery of 1884.— The following table 

 has been compiled from sworn statements of masters of vessels engaged 

 in the mackerel-fishery, made to F. J. Babson, collector of customs at 

 Gloucester, Mass. These statements were forwarded to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury, who turned them over to the U. S. Commission of Fish 

 and Fisheries. Nearly all of the vessels went to the Gulf of Saint Law- 

 rence for mackerel. 



