HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MENHADEN. IQl 



Bay L'Etang Lepreaux, or Musqnasb, in New BruDswick, or Saint 

 Mary's Bay ami ,ts tributaries, or Tusket Eiver, in Nova Sco ia «• 

 In h,s report for 1873, Mr. Peter Mitchell, minister of marine and 



of bTfoTZr '"'' '//^^-^"'^ ^^ '''''^' ''^ artiacialZauetion 

 t.fT .! . ^P"'"''' ^'^^""^ ^" ««°^« P^rt of the coast of Nova 

 Scotia and to devote attention especially to the growth of the menhaZ 

 and otDer bait-fishes of that class.t f"ennaaen 



mi'ssion'rile bl'' ^'' ''"''"'''' Government," before the Halifax Com- 

 mission (see below m paragraph 219), the claim is made that ''the men 

 hac^n bait itself can be bred and restored to places in the Bay of Fundv 



With regard to these claims it can only be said that they are nntrue 

 ct^esTfi"; I" '"' '"'"^ ^'^ '''''''''' acquaintance wL tie prTn! 

 schemes. " "'"^' '°'"^"° '"^ ^^^^ «^ *^^ *--»^iJity of Lh 



H.— ENEMIES AND FATALITIES. 



24.-— Diseases. 



Mortality in the Merrimac River. 



are very probably caused by the presence of soJe interoafpSt'! ' 

 25.— Parasites op the menhaden. 

 The crustacean, Cymothoa prcegustator. 



...^curr altteSr ''''^' ""'"' ''" -""-— P^ticu- 



So^tte'states'has'^ef ^"""""'rPP'-" '» «■« menhaden in the 

 ■~:^^^^-^^^^!!:^!!J:!^?!:!^!1^^^^ emstaeean frequently 



Of thrfithtr :'rS5^^^^^°^^ 



t Fifth Annual Report, &c., p. 66, 



t Springfield Republican, August 21, 1871. 



