niSTORY OF 'IHE AMERICAN MENHADEN. 443 



57. Fifty cents to tl. 



68. No; if it docs, we do not notice it. 



48. Statement of J. Morrison Raijnor^ Atjcntfor Sterling Company, Green- 

 port, JJcctmher 20, 1877. 



The number of gears and sail employed by us the past season was three, 

 consisting of three yachts, six lighters or carry-away boats. The Swan, 

 24.64 tons ; the Mary 11. Sisson, 20.95 tons ; the Dauntless, 3 9.70 tons ; 

 Titus, Bunker City, 8.(i4 tons; Kough and Keady, 10.24 tons; sloop 

 Sarah, 10.39 tons ; sloop Kate Komer, 9.83 tons ; sloop Friendly, 13.37 

 tons ; sloop John Marcy, 12.50 tons. Each gang consists of 8 men, 2 

 boys, 1 cook — making 9 men and 2 boys; total, 27 men and 8 boys. The 

 men fish for a share and not for wages, except cook and boys hired by 

 them. Use purse-seines ; are about 125 to 150 fathoms long, 80 to 100 

 feet deep. The number of fish taken by them was 14,449,000. 



49. Statement of EatcJcins Brothers, Jamesport, N. Y., February 25, 1875. 



1. Mossbunker or menhaden. 



2. Much more numerous. 



3. Cannot perceive any difference. 

 5. Cannot perceive that it does. 



C. About the 1st of May, on the coast of Long Island. The first are 

 usually the largest. The schools come in at intervals from the 1st of 

 May to the last of August. 



7. They swim both high and low, but usually the former, and make 

 a ripple on the water, attracting fish-hawks only. 



8. Come from the south, following the coast and stopping in the bays 

 and sounds. 



9. They are not regular but are certain, and are more plentiful in 

 some localities and at some seasons than others. 



10. From experience we think not. 



11. Think they move toward the shore more on the flood than on the 

 ebb tide. 



12. In bays, sounds, and their entrances. 



13. In all depths on the coast and in the bays. 



14. It does. 



15. Think not ; we find no small fish in the spring of the year. I 

 believe these fish get their growth in one year. 



16. Yes ; from July to November, from one to six inches long; 



17. Commence to leave in October by degrees. 



18. Following the coast south. 



21. In heads of bays in the springi 



