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  & 
  England, 
  Russell, 
  and 
  two 
  at 
  Carpenter's 
  Point, 
  owned 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  Washington 
  Barnes. 
  

  

  The 
  total 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  seines 
  of 
  these 
  eighteen 
  fisheries 
  

   is 
  about 
  26,350 
  yards, 
  and 
  the 
  ripe 
  fish 
  cauglit 
  by 
  this 
  

   immense 
  aggregation 
  of 
  seine 
  can 
  all 
  be 
  utilised 
  for 
  furnish- 
  

   ing 
  spaAvn 
  for 
  a 
  central 
  hatching 
  station, 
  ])y 
  means 
  of 
  

   proper 
  organization 
  and 
  equipment. 
  

  

  All 
  of 
  these 
  fisheries 
  were 
  visited 
  from 
  tinie 
  to 
  time. 
  It 
  

   v/ill 
  be 
  seen, 
  by 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  table 
  showing 
  the 
  tempera- 
  

   ture 
  and 
  the 
  details 
  of 
  the 
  operations 
  conducted, 
  that 
  the 
  

   air 
  and 
  water 
  continued 
  quite 
  cold, 
  for 
  this 
  season, 
  until 
  

   about 
  the 
  12th 
  of 
  May, 
  when 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  constant 
  southerly 
  

   wind 
  and 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  temperature 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  night 
  of 
  the 
  

   I'lth, 
  having 
  gotten 
  the 
  apparatus 
  in 
  working 
  order, 
  I 
  

   visited, 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time, 
  the 
  fisheries 
  on 
  »Spcsutie 
  Island 
  

   and 
  the 
  eastern 
  shore 
  of 
  the 
  bay. 
  On 
  this 
  one 
  night 
  I 
  took, 
  

   at 
  the 
  smallest 
  calculation, 
  1,250,000 
  eggs. 
  These 
  were 
  

   kept, 
  during 
  the 
  night, 
  in 
  the 
  tanks 
  on 
  the 
  steamer, 
  and 
  the 
  

   next 
  morning 
  taken 
  to 
  Havre 
  do 
  Grace. 
  

  

  The 
  yield 
  of 
  spawn 
  was 
  so 
  much 
  greater 
  from 
  the 
  fisheries 
  

   on 
  the 
  Cecil 
  side, 
  that 
  I 
  determined 
  to 
  move 
  the 
  apparatus 
  

   to 
  Carrot 
  cove, 
  on 
  the 
  North 
  East 
  river 
  ; 
  consequently, 
  on 
  

   the 
  next 
  day, 
  I 
  had 
  the 
  scows 
  moved 
  round 
  to 
  this 
  more 
  

   convenient 
  locality, 
  and 
  this 
  continued 
  to 
  be 
  our 
  central 
  sta- 
  

   tion 
  until 
  the 
  27th, 
  when 
  I 
  deemed 
  it 
  advisable 
  to 
  move 
  tiic 
  

   8C0WS 
  to 
  Spesutie 
  narrows. 
  

  

  Tlie 
  water 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  East 
  and 
  in 
  Carrot 
  

   cove, 
  being 
  shallow, 
  was 
  more 
  easily 
  influenced 
  by 
  the 
  tem- 
  

   perature 
  than 
  the 
  deeper 
  and 
  more 
  rapidly 
  flowing 
  water 
  at 
  

   Spesutie 
  narrows. 
  About 
  tliis 
  time, 
  tlie 
  weather 
  became 
  ex- 
  

   ceedingly 
  hot, 
  and 
  the 
  temperature 
  rose 
  rapidly 
  to 
  18^. 
  

   Spesutie 
  narrows 
  was 
  also 
  a 
  more 
  central 
  station 
  for 
  the 
  gill- 
  

   nets, 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  season 
  was 
  about 
  closing 
  for 
  the 
  seine-haul- 
  

   ers, 
  we 
  had 
  to 
  look 
  for 
  our 
  supply 
  of 
  ripe 
  AhIi 
  to 
  tin; 
  gill- 
  

   nets 
  alone. 
  

  

  