30 COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



Table XI. 

 First Appearance of Various Marketable Fish in Traps off Newport, 1906-1913. 



1906. 



1909. 



1910. 



1911. 



Butterfish 



Horsemackerel . 



King Fish 



Mackerel 



Sea Bass 



Sea Robins. . . . 



Scup 



Squid 



Squiteague . . . 

 Striped Bass. . 



April 16. 



May 10. 



May 4. 



April 30. 

 April 20. 

 May 4. 

 May 4. 

 April 31. 



May 2. 

 May 8. 

 May 9. 

 May 2. 

 May 10, 

 May 21, 

 May 16. 



April 28. 

 June 25. 

 May 8. 

 April 27. 

 May 5. 

 April 27. 

 April 23. 

 April 27. 

 May 7. 

 April 24. 



April 21. 

 June 17. 

 May 4. 

 April 17. 

 May 4. 

 May 1. 

 April 19. 

 May 1. 

 May 19. 

 April 21. 



April 22. 

 July 16. 

 May 4. 

 April 23. 

 May 1. 

 April 2*1. 

 April 24. 

 April 20. 

 April 9. 

 April 20. 



May 2. 



July 15. 



! May 13. 



\ May 6. 



j May 4. 



\ April 27. 

 1 

 April 26. 



April 28. 



May 13. 



April 22. 



May 21. 



May 10. 

 May 3. 

 April 30. 

 April 24. 

 April 24. 

 May 1. 

 May 13. 

 April 24. 



April 22. 

 July 18. 

 May 6. 

 April 28. 

 April 25. 

 April 26. 

 April 14. 

 April 23. 

 April 22. 

 April 13. 



TUNA FISHING. 



For more than a year your Commission has considered the possibil- 

 ity of developing the tmia fishing off Block Island. No one who has 

 witnessed in the latter part of the summer off Block Island the 

 magnificent leaps of the fish locally called the horse-mackerel can 

 doubt its identity with the famous leaping tuna of Southern Cali- 

 fornia. Not alone an identity of species, which is easily established, 

 but also an identity in game qualities. For there the fish leaps in 

 pursuit of the flymg fish, while here, the fish which is pursued rarely 

 if ever leaves the water even when closely pressed. To such an 

 extent has this idea of the importance of the tuna fishery near Block 

 Island grown in the mmds of your Commissioners that this past 

 summer investigations were begun as a result of which it is con- 

 fidently expected that this year the initial steps will be taken in the 

 establishment of such a fishery. This industry brings thousands of 

 dollars each year to Catalina Island, in California, and why not here 

 where conditions are similar? In order that the possibilities lying 

 at our door may be knovMi some facts which were brought out in 

 the investigation are here given. 



