28 KENDALL: NEW ENGLAND SALMONS. 



Calderwood (1930, p. 14) says: 'Their wanderings in the sea have been wide, wider 

 than perhaps we know, and when they leave the open water, they give up the search 

 for food in order to follow the other great instinct of all creatures and they make a pas- 

 sage to the coast.' 



In another place (1930, p. 19) he says: 'Chance captures of adult fish are, however, 

 made from time to time, and these show us that salmon are to be found at great distances 

 from land.' 



He goes on to say: 'Two of the captures are of special interest as indicating that the 

 fish go very far from any fresh waters where salmon are commonly to be found. One 

 was taken by a herring drifter fishing 67 miles E. by N. from Lerwick (Shetland Isles), 

 the other by a trawler about 40 miles W. of the Fair Isle. There is a great herring fishery 

 conducted every summer round the Shetland Isles, and it is clear that some salmon know 

 where the shoals are. In this connection I recall a statement of Prof. Dahl's that Nor- 

 wegian fishermen have told him how they saw great numbers of salmon in shallow water 

 in the neighborhood of the Fair Isle. It is hearsay evidence, but it has a certain amount 

 of application in view of the captures mentioned. 



'It is necessary, I feel sure, that we should realize how completely separated from all 

 fresh waters salmon are during their sea life. They can rove hundreds of miles away 

 off the coast, as they follow the creatures upon wliich they feed. Instead of regarding 

 those chance captures as telling us Uttle or nothing, I am inclined to regard them as 

 valuable indications of where salmon go in the sea.' 



Salmon Taken in Casco Bay, Maine, by Traps, Nets and Pounds. 



On the Massachusetts coast salmon are now regularly taken each year at most of the 

 important pound-net and trap fisheries. The largest numbers are caught in Cape Cod 

 Bay. 



Beginning with 1917, in connection with his statistical work pertaining to the vessel 

 fisheries landing at Portland, Mr. Walter H. Rich, agent of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries, kindly collected for the writer such data concerning salmon as came to his 

 notice. Necessarily the records are not complete in every respect and are not full for 

 every year. Many of the salmon taken at the pounds in and about Casco Bay are sold 

 locally to summer people or to towns nearer the traps. Probably the receipts at Portland 

 would not amount to more than one-third of the catch. It is further noted that a large 

 number of the fish which enter the traps do not remain; they jump the corkUne to make 

 their escape. Most of the records pertain to salmon incidentally caught in floating traps 

 or pounds or other nets operated for other fishes. 



Table 2 embodies these records in a general way without specifying the exact locaUty, 

 but all are Casco Bay data. It shows the total number of pounds of salmon caught in 

 the traps or pounds, and nets, from May to September, inclusive. Of the total catch 

 of 10,419^ pounds, 9,303 pounds were taken in traps or pound nets. 



Although incomplete and more or less deficient in some respects, the data are interest- 



