24 FISH COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT. [Jan., 
It should be recollected that these experiments were con- 
ducted by men who were very confident that they would be 
successful, and every facility was afforded to them to make 
the test decisive. The result was that not a single young 
shad was hatched in the salt water, and it would seem to be 
demonstrated to the satisfaction of every fair-minded person 
that the eggs of the shad can only be properly developed and 
made to produce healthy young fish in the fresh water to 
which the parents annually resort for the sole purpose of 
spawning. 
The report of the catch of shad in the Connecticut River and 
the pounds near its mouth, in Long Island Sound for 1881 is 
as follows: 
POUNDS. 
6 in Saybrook caught - - 97,850 
10 in Westbrook “ - - 129,788 
7 in Clinton e - - 50,000 
13 in Madison «s - - 4,000 
36 Total, - 281,638 
GILL-NETS. 
2 at Deep River caught - - 2,080 
7 at Hamburg e - - 5,000 
5 at Essex a - - 4,763 
18 at Lyme : - - 20,350 
10 at Old Saybrook ‘“ - . 11,258 
42 Total, - 43,451 
HAULING SEINES. 
3 at Saybrook caught = - - 18,000 
5 at Essex = - - 8,589 
8 Total, : 26,589 
SUMMARY. 
36 pounds caught - - 281,638 
42 gill-nets as - - 43,451 
8 seines 0 - - 26,589 
851,678 
