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He bad more net-men fishing this year than last. The hook-men did 

 about one-half or two thirds as well as last year. The scup were gen- 

 erally small. 



Joseph Losing, a dealer/received, this year, sea-bass and scup, 208 

 barrels; and of blue-fish, 305 barrels. 



He had more nets than last year, and the same number of hook-men, 

 (25.) The hook-men did about two-thirds as well as last year. Very 

 many of the fish taken were small scup. ISTo tautog. Blue-fish were 

 taken till October 14. Says the whole number of his twenty-five men 

 will state that they got about two-thirds as many fish as last year. 

 , "While coming up in the cars this morning from Hyanuis, I met Arnold 

 Luce, of Jeremiah Luce's fish-pound at Lambert's Cove. He says his 

 father did not do more than half as well as last year. He said he had 

 himself been connected with the fish-pound three years, but sunk money 

 this year. He said that he caught two of those large bill-fish and two 

 saw-tail sharks, (by his description :) that the tail was longer than that 

 of the switch-tail shark. 



Wood's Hole, NovemherV2, 1872. 



MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 



I have been to Menemsha and to Lambert's Cove, and saw all the fish- 

 .ermen that are at home. Some are not willing to give an account of 

 what they catch, but say they did not get as much as last year. The 

 Paint-Mill fish-pound men were all away, but the owners say they did 

 not do half as well as last year. There was no run of scup, sea-bass, or 

 tautog. Of blue-fish, they caught about one-fourth as many as last year. 



B. Tilton, of the Menemsha Luce pound, said that they did not catch 

 one-half as many scup and sea-bass and tautog as last year ; of blue- 

 fish, about half as many. Squid were more plenty ; bait very plenty. 



Hiram Pool and Lemuel Keed, of Menemsha, net-men, of Prince 

 Stewart's pound, said that they did a little better on scup this year than 

 last. Their leader was twice as long as last year. 



Of tautog and sea-bass they did not take one-fourth as many as last 

 year, nor of blue-fish in the same length of time. They kept their pound 

 down a good deal longer this year. Striped-bass were quite plenty in 

 October. The 1st day of November, the day they took up the pound, 

 they caught blue-fish, striped-bass, squeteague, cod-fish, and shad. 



E. Flanders, of Menemsha, a net-fisherman, said he never saw fish 

 so scarce since he had lived there as this year. He always could catch 

 plenty of scup, sea-bass, and tautog there with hook and line ; but 

 could not catch any this year. Five years ago there were plenty of 

 scup at Menemsha Pond, but none this year. He tended a fish-pound 

 this season, and never knew fish so scarce. There were no blue-fish to 

 be caught with the hook, and very few in the pounds. Squid quite 

 plenty ; very few mackerel this year. Wilbur Flanders, of the same 

 fish-pound, confirmed the statement made by E. Flanders. 



LAMBERT'S COVE. 



Seth Luce and Jeremiah Luce, net-men, said they did not keep 

 any account of fish, but knew they did not catch more than one-half as 



