36 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Mr. G. A. Boardman, of Calais, Me., icforms me that large schools 

 have beeu seeu during the summer iu Passamaquoddy Bay aud the 

 lower Bay of Fundy. 



James Lord, of Deer Island, Charlotte County, ^. B., testified before 

 the Halifax Commission that he had taken porgies in the neighborhood 

 of Campo Bello, but that none had been seen there for ten years or 

 more.* 



Mr. J. F. Whiteaves declares that of late years none have been found 

 in 'New Brunswick, nor to the north of Grand Manan.t 



The claim of Professor Hind that they have been found as far north 

 as Canso, is not, to my knowledge, supported by satisfactory evidence. 



At present the eastward wanderings of the schools do not appear to 

 extend beyond Isle au Haut and Great Duck Island. These islands are 

 less than forty miles westward of the boundary of Maine and Isew 

 Brunswick. 



Soutliern limit of range. 



57. Dekay supposed the southern limit of the menhaden to be in the 

 neighborhood of Chesapeake Bay, but it has for some years been known 

 that they occur iu great abundance on the coast of North Carolina. I 

 found them to be abundant in the Saint John's lliver, Florida, in March 

 and April, 1874 and 1875, and it is quite certain that they are found 

 there throughout the winter. In the National Museum are specimens 

 (Catalogue No. 769G) collected at Indian Eiver by Mr. Wurdemann. Mr. 

 Charles Dougherty, of New Smyrna, Fla., tells me that he has observed 

 numerous large schools during the winter in the open ocean off Cape 

 Canaveral and Mosquito Inlet. 



Old fishermen from Key West, who are i^erfectly familiar with the 

 fish, assure me that it is never seeu about the Florida Keys. 



Oceanic limits of range. 



58. Beyond these bonnds nothing certain is known. The thorough 

 and indefatigable labor of the twenty years during which Professor 

 Poey has been investigating the ichthyology of Cuba justifies us in tak- 

 ing his word that the menhaden is not found in those waters. It has 

 not been found at any other point iu the West Indies, nor is it recorded 

 from the coast of South America, though other species of the same genus 

 have been found there. The investigations of Mr J. Matthew Jones and 

 myself have failed to discover it about the Bermuda Islands, and it ap- 

 pears to be unknown to the fishermen at that point. 



Menhaden in the Gulf of Mexico. 



59. Mr. S. H. Wilkinson, keeper of Cat Island light-house, Missis- 

 sippi Sound, writes that no fish resembling the menhaden is found in 



* Proceedings Halifax Commission, 1877, Appendix F, p. 245. 



t Sixth Report Department of Marine and Fisheries, Appendix U, p. 195. 



