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RECAPirULATION OF CAPTURES. — CONTINUED. 



Barrytown 2 



Kingston Point 2 



North Staatsburg 2 



Hyde Park i 



Elmore's Dock 2 



Newburgh i 



Newburgh bay i 



Verplancks 3 



Communipaw to Yonkers 14 



Troy, below the dam 26 



Mechanicville 4 



Total known 134 



I have no doubt, that four times this number were taken 

 by the shad fishermen who as before stated, are very cautious 

 about giving information. 



PROSPECTS FOR SPAWN GATHERING. 



There are but two places where the fish have been taken 

 in sufficient numbers to enable us to get some spawning fish. 

 These are Troy and Gravesend bay. At Troy a number 

 could be caught, or bought from the shad fishermen. At 

 Gravesend bay they might be kept alive by the fishermen 

 until the season was over, and than be purchased. The fisher- 

 men at this place did not know of any law on the subject, and 

 openly sold their fish in the New York markets, receiving 

 from twenty-five cents to one dollar per pound, the last figure 

 being for the first two or three fish taken. 



I do not think the water in the Hudson is cool enough to 

 pen salmon in below Troy. Between Troy and Mechanic- 

 ville there are deep, cool spots which I think would answer. 

 Mr. Burden thinks that the trout ponds of Cold Spring Harbor 

 would be the best place to keep those captured in the lower 

 river until the spawning season, and in this I agree with him. 

 At Mechanicville the fish would require watching night and 



