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pounds in two days, and quite a number were taken ranging from forty 

 to fifty-seven pounds. 



TAUTOG. 



There has been, we think, a very decided increase in this valued local 

 fish, and reports come to us of good fishing for them in the fishing 

 grounds in the bay. 



HERRING 



Did not appear as usual in the lower waters of the bay, but were 

 plenty in the Taunton River. The traps that in years past caught 

 thousands caught but very few. 



FLAT-FISH. 



These fish, that have usually been very plenty in Seacounet river, 

 failed to appear there in any considerable numbers ; but we learn were 

 plenty at Cole's river and other places. 



MENHADEN. 



These fish came to our coast about the middle of May in small 

 schools, and the fishing was light all that month. In June they were 

 here in large bodies and there was good fishing. Later on they moved 

 eastward, and by the last of June were in Boston Bay. 



From there the fishing was transferred to the coast of Maine until 

 the last of September, when they again came south, and by the 21st of 

 October were very plenty off our coast, but a heavy storm prevailed 

 from the 23d to the 29th, after which none were to be found. They 

 next appeared in immense schools off Barnegat, going south at the rate 

 of one hundred miles a day. 



The season closed about three weeks sooner than usual. 



The catch of menhaden by our fleet was as follows : 



Steamer G. W. Humphreys 60,000 barrels. 



A. M. Hathaway 49,000 



Joseph Church 45,000 



