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of salmon were shipped to New York from Bathurst, and the 

 price declined until the retail price in the New York market was 

 ten cents per pound. Only think of it, salmon, one of the 

 choicest fish we have ! I had the curiosity to inquire of Mr. 

 Mowat to what he attributed mostly this great increase, whether 

 to fish hatching, or the protective laws, which was entitled to the 

 most credit, and he answered unhesitatingly, " I think that it 

 was the protective laws that were entitled to the greatest share 

 of credit ; that although fish hatching and propagating supplied 

 to a great degree the waste." Yet the protective laws, he 

 thought, were more efficacious in increasing the supply. I 

 speak of that here because I think that in New York, if the laws 

 were more stringent in regard to our shad, we should find a 

 very much more marked increase in the supply. 



The increase of shad in the market has not been so great as 

 we had reason to expect from the vast quantity of eggs that are 

 hatched and turned loose, but owing to the persistent fishing of 

 the waters all the time, Sundays included, the fish have no 

 chance to get up the river, but, with one day's rest for the fish, 

 it would probably greatly increase the supply. 



The terrapin has had some attention paid to it, in regard to 

 seeing whether it should be cultivated, and the supply increased 

 in our waters, through the enterprise of a dealer in our market, 

 Mr. Benjamin West. He established a pen on the New Jersey 

 shore, in the vicinity of Long Branch, in which, during the 

 summer months, when terrapin are not in season here — folks do 

 not call for them, they are not marketable — large quantities are 

 shipped to New York from Texas and the Southern States ; so 

 that the price, which in the terrapin season is usually from 

 $12 to $15 a dozen, in the summer time is as low as 

 $2 50 and $3. They purchase a large quantity of terrapin 

 during the summer, and place them in these pens and feed 



