32 KENDALL: NEW ENGLAND SALMONS. 



tance from shore, general locale of taking, and catching apparatus, the following are 

 culled from the reported incidents of capture : 



A salmon weighing eight pounds was caught on a line trawl on the southeastern part 

 of Georges Bank in 20 fathoms of water by schooner Hattie I. Phillips in 1896. The 

 location indicated is 160 miles from the nearest land. Cape Cod. 



A ten pound salmon, the first reported caught off Cape Ann in 30 years, was taken in 

 a trap off MagnoUa in June, 1879. 



In June, 1888, two salmon, 17 and 19 pounds were taken at Cranberry Isles, Maine, 

 almost 35 miles in a straight line from the mouth of the Penobscot River. During the 

 following July six salmon were caught at the same place. 



About April 10, 1893, the mackerel schooner Ethel B. Jacobs of Gloucester, Mass., 

 was cruising for mackerel off the coast of Delaware. When in latitude 38 degrees, at a 

 point about 50 miles east southeast of Fenwick Island Ughtship, the vessel fell in at night 

 with a large bodj^ of mackerel, and a seine was thrown round a part of the school. Among 

 the mackerel taken was an Atlantic salmon weighing 16 pounds. The fish was fat and 

 in good condition. Another was reported to have escaped over the corkline. This would 

 be about 60 miles offshore from the nearest land. 



In 1895 a Penobscot River salmon exhibited in a Bangor market tipped the beam at 

 a trifle less than 35 pounds. It was taken in a weir at Stockton Springs. 



While salmon are caught in nets and weirs in the vicinity of Islesboro, Maine, the 

 experiences of a Searsmont man fishing from the steamboat wharf, presumably with a 

 hand line, while waiting for a boat at that place, is unprecedented. To his own astonish- 

 ment, and that of others, he landed a salmon of 21 pounds. 



In December a salmon of 28 pounds was caught on a trawl near Halfway Rock off 

 Salem Harbor. In 1896 I personally recorded the following: At North Truro, Cape Cod, 

 June 15, a salmon of 12 pounds, and on June 17 two salmon of 15 and 18 pounds were 

 taken in a trap. 



In the first week of June, 1890, a salmon was taken on a trawl by boat fishermen off 

 Gloucester. On June 11, 1893, a salmon of 15 pounds, and on various other occasions, 

 in the same month salmon from 12 to 15 pounds were taken on trawls by boat fishermen, 

 off Gloucester. Also on a trawl of a hake fisherman one was caught. The weight was not 

 stated. 



In April or Maj^ 1917, the schooner Ida and Frances, Captain Ralph Bickford, purse- 

 netting poUock, set around a supposed school of those fish. All but five fish jumped out. 

 These five were salmon averaging ten pounds each. It was estimated that there must 

 have been at least 200 salmon in the school. 



On March 18, 1929, a 30-pound salmon was caught on a trawl of the schooner Virginia, 

 on Browns Bank, 60 miles south of Cape Sable, N. S., and on August 6 the schooner 

 Oretha F. Spinney took a 19-pound salmon on a halibut trawl off the Labrador shore in 

 the Strait of Belle, Isle. In March, 1924, Captain Reuben Doughty took a five-pound 

 salmon from the stomach of a 'steak' cod of 30 pounds caught on Jeffreys, 36 miles 

 southeast of Portland Lightship, in 70 fathoms. 



