BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 95 



SHAD TAKEN IN MCKEREL GILL-NETS. 



By CAPT. J. W. COLLIKS. 



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



A Friendship " mackerel dragger " — a 25-ton pinkey — while fishing with 

 mackerel gill-nets in Ipswich Bay, about half-way from the Isle of Shoals 

 to Halibut Point, on the night of June 9, took 27 full-grown shad, which 

 would average 4£ pounds each, besides about a bushel of small shad. 

 The latter have a black tip to their nose, and are called smutty-nosed 

 shad by the fishermen. They are about the size of large alewives, so 

 Captain Martin tells me, who saw both the large and small shad taken 

 by this vessel. 



About the 12th of June Capt. David Malonson, of schooner Crest of 

 the Wave, caught about 8 barrels of large shad, but no small ones, in a 

 purse-seine, 8 miles northeast from Cape Cod light. 



The shad were apparently mixed with mackerel, since 20 barrels of 

 the latter fish were taken in the seine at the same time. There have 

 been other instances of the capture of shad by the mackerel fishermen 

 this spring, the particulars of which we have not yet fully learned. 



Gloucester, Mass., June 22, 1882. 



TRANSPORTATION OF LIVE FISH.* 

 [From the official repor^ of the International Fishery Exposition, Berlin, 1880.] 



The following report relates mainly to the means of transporting live 

 fish, exhibited in Class IV, with the exception of those destined for the 

 transportation of young fry. With regard to these, competent pisci- 

 culturists who have a larger experience will report. It is only the 

 transportation of large fish, such as are brought to market, are exhibited 

 in aquaria, and are used for stocking ponds, of which I intend to speak 

 in this report. 



The comparatively small number of articles exhibited to illustrate the 

 transportation of live fish— whilst nearly all other departments of the 

 exhibition were well represented — showed clearly how little the devel- 

 opment of means for transporting fish has advanced of late years. It 

 certainly has not kept pace with the rapid development of general means 

 of transportation. The great importance of fish, more especially of salt- 

 water fish, as a popular article of food urgently demands that suitable 

 means of transporting fish should be furnished. This applies particu- 

 larly to transportation by railroad. For transporting fish by water the 



* " Transport lebender Fisclie," from Amtliclie Berichte Uber die Internationale Fisclierei- 

 Ausstdhuuj zu Berlin, 1860. Translated from the German by Herman Jacobson. 



