724 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [4] 



For information concerning the captures of adult salmon in the Hud- 

 son we are greatly indebted to Mr. A. N. Cheney, of Glens Falls, N. Y, 

 a gentleman who is well known as an angling authority in this and 

 other countries, and who has taken a great interest in the work of stock- 

 ing the waters with fish. He writes me, under date of March 23, 1887, 

 as follows : 



'•' Last year twenty-four salmon were taken in the Hudson Kiver at 

 the places named : 



Troy Dam 9 



Au island, below Troy .' 2 



Stockport 2 



Albany 2 



Rbiuebeck 2 



Pougbkeepsie 3 



Yonkers 4 



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" The New York Herald also reports some taken at Staten Island." 

 The largest salmon taken in the Hudson, of which we have any ac- 

 count, was caught at the State dam, at Troy, and weighed 14£ pounds. 

 This fish was 'seen by Dr. H. P. Schuyler, of Troy, who has also taken 

 a great interest in the stocking of the river, and who has said that he 

 believes that the waters in the vicinity of the dam contain many salmon 

 that are unable to get farther. In addition to the list of twenty-four 

 salmon given by Mr. Cheney, 1 am able to add one which I saw in 

 Fulton Market, which weighed about 10 pounds, and was captured by 

 John Denyse, of Gravesend, in Gravesend Bay, some time in the latter 

 part of May, 18SG. Several gentlemen, among whom are Messrs. Cheney 

 and Schuyler, before referred to, and Dr. Samuel B. Ward, of Albany, 

 president of the Eastern New York Fish and Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation, have moved to induce the State legislature to make an appro- 

 priation for fish ways, to be placed in the Troy and other dams, in order 

 that the salmon may reach the breeding grounds. If they accomplish 

 this, and the fish have proper protection, it is among the possibilities 

 that we may yet take eggs from salmon which have been artificially 

 hatched and planted in the Hudson, a feat which we might justly re- 

 gard as one of the greatest triumphs in fish-culture. 



LANDLOCKED OR SCHOODIC SALMON (SALMO SALAB VCLY. SEBAGO). 



On March 18, 188G, there was received from Mr. H. H. Buck, of 

 Grand Lake Stream, one case containing 34,000 eggs in exceedingly 

 good condition, only 70 being dead. After hatching, the fry were planted 

 in Adirondack lakes by request of General R. U. Sherman, of the New 

 York Fish Commission. 



BROWN OR EUROPEAN TROUT (SALMO FARIO). 



Three lots of brown-trout eggs were received from Germany. On 

 March 1, 1886, one case came from the Deutscher Fischerei-Verein con- 



