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in this matter, and was instrumental in getting a McDonald 

 fishway put in the Troy dam by the state, mainly for the pass- 

 age of salmon, which had been seen jumping at the dam and 

 bad been netted below it in former years. Mr. Matthew Ken- 

 nedy, of the city of Hudson, and one of the fish and game 

 protectors of the State, as well as a shad fisherman owning 

 several nets and employing a number of men in the season, 

 gave me valuable assistance, in reporting such salmon cap- 

 tures as had come to his knowledge. 



Mathew Kennedy says that eight salmon were taken at 

 Hudson by two parties, and the fish were returned to the 

 water alive. He saw the fish, and his men caught some of 

 them. His nets were old and tender, and the salmon made 

 holes in them ; but if the nets had been stronger a great 

 many more would have been taken. If the striped bass were 

 as plenty about Hudson as they were a dozen years ago, that 

 fish would have been credited with making the holes, but the 

 bass are scarce now, and he believes that salmon made them, 

 for they were too small to have been made by sturgeon. Four 

 of these fish were taken on one day in rough weather, and 

 Mr. Kennedy thinks it worthy of note that all the others were 

 taken when the water was rough. They were caught be- 

 tween the 1st and 14th of June. The water in the river was 

 very high up to the middle of May, and but little shad fishing 

 was done until after that date. 



Stockport. — John W. Best took four fish — weights not 

 given ; and at New Baltimore, H. Van Hoesen caught three 

 which weighed forty pounds, or an average of over thirteen 

 pounds each. At this point the channel is shallow, and the 

 nets are short, and salmon can escape them better than in 

 most places. 



At the following places I learned of fish being taken. The 

 towns are given as found on my note-book, without regard to 

 their geographical sequence. In all cases it was not possible 

 to learn the names of the captors, nor the weights of the fish; 

 but where these items were learned they are given : Highland 



