[3] PROPAGATION OF THE SCHOODIC SALMON. 63D 
to come in before the work was done. They came in very freely in the 
evening. 
November 5.—As usual, the most of the fish came in in the early part 
ot the night. This forenoon we got in the remaining pounds and in the 
afternoon commenced taking spawn. 
The fish taken last night are remarkable for size, and are fully up to 
the average of former years in plumpness and health. Thisis the evi- 
dence of the eye, and so far as the measurement goes, it bears out this 
conclusion. 
November 6.—Not so good a run last night as the night before. The 
size of the fish is, however, fully up to the first. I went down to the 
bark-mill and examined the whole length of the canal. Counted thirty- 
four Schoodic salmon, probably nearly half females. There may have 
been some that escaped me, but I do not think there are forty in all in the 
eanal. I think they are making nests a little more than two-thirds of 
the way down. It is possible that some fish get through our net now 
from time to time, where it goes round the main pier, for Ripley and 
Munson have found some holes in it. 
Just above the dam I saw this afternoon three females spawning, and 
six to ten males fighting over them; one little yearling or bi-yearling, 
with bars. Below the dam I looked the gravels and rapids over carefully 
and found no evidence of salmon having been there this year. Nor any- 
where below the dam could I see nest or fish, except one male fish in oid 
channel at head of saw-mill flume. 
It does not follow that these fish at the dam and below escaped 
through our net, for it may be that they have lain below our nets all 
the season. 
I have seen two yearling or bi-yearling salmon—one at the dam, one 
at the pounds; the latter showed the bars and spots plainly, but was, I 
think, fully 8 inches long. The new nets of which our pounds are 
this year largely built will hold a fish of this size. 
November 7.—The run of salmon last night was smaller than either of 
the other two nights, probable not over 100. The rain continued with 
a southerly wind all night. Between 6 and 7 a.m. we drove the fish 
- intothird pound. During the forenoon others came in, more in number, 
Munson thinks, than during lastnight. These were driven through with 
the others into pound 3, and so was another good drive late in the 
afternoon. In the evening I stood for an hour quite still by the weir, 
watching for fish to enter, but only four came in during that time. I 
saw two females spawning just outside the entrance within 10 feet of 
me; those that came in and others that lingered about did not manifest 
any fear of me; I think. they did not see me. Forbes says that last 
night the fish all about, both within and without our pounds, were very 
quiet; to-night he says they are much less so. 
Munson put a whole net around the pier. 
At the hatching house [ find that Mr. Munson has the water from the 
