118 AMERICAN FISH CDLTURB. 



Total, 478. Fish weighing gross 4665 lbs., viz. : 



Noble 588 



Cross 1059 



Law ...... 1551 



Gilmour 1567 



Total 4665 



Areraging about 9| lbs. each fish." 



On the Nipissiguit, the same season, the sport was excel- 

 lent; my best days running from nine to twelve sal- 

 mon and a great many grilse. The score of each day was 

 very uniform ; the largest fish 22J lbs. I was quite sur- 

 feited, and left off during a good run of fish. If I had 

 continued I would have made an extraordinary score. 



The last report of the Commissioners of Fisheries for the 

 state of Maine, is a work of one hundred and twenty-seven 

 octavo pages, and contains so much valuable information, 

 particularly as showing the feasibility of restocking their 

 many once abundant salmon rivers, that it should be read 

 by all who have the matter at heart. Anglers should by 

 all means read it. If the enterprise which now character- 

 izes the commissioners continues, we may, in the course 

 of five or six years, have abundant sport in the fine rivers 

 of Maine. 



I have obtained from Theodore Lyman, Esq., the pri- 

 vilege of using the illustration of fishways, found on the 

 opposite page. It is taken from the report of the Massa- 

 chusetts Commissioners of Fisheries. The explanations on 

 p. 120, are also from the same report. 



