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coast from Grand Manan to Scituate, for the purpose of depositing 
their spawn; this act depending upon their finding water sutli- 
ciently cold for their purposes, a condition which of course occurs 
later-and later in the season, in going south. A portion of the - 
school indeed passes around Cape Cod as far as Long Island, and 
I have received them fresh in November, filled with ripe spawn as 
taken from Vineyard Sound. 
In the early spring the alewives formerly made their appearance 
on the coast, crowding along our shores and ascended our rivers 
in order to deposit their spawn, being followed later in the season 
by the shad and.salmon. Returning when their eggs were laid, , 
these fish spent the summer along the coast; and in the course of 
afew months were joined by their young, which formed immense 
schools in every direction, extending outward in some instances 
for many miles. It was in pursuit of these and other summer fish 
that the cod, and other species referred to, came close to the 
shores; but with the decrease of the former in number, the at- 
traction became less and less, and the deep-sea fishes have now, 
-We may say, almost disappeared along the coast. 
t is, therefore, perfectly safe to assume that the improvement 
of the line fishing along the coast of Maine is closely connected, 
with the increase in number of alewives, shad and salmon: and 
that, whatever measures are taken to facilitate the restoration of 
whether the cod or other equally desirable sea-fish shall be brought 
back to our coast, so th one who may be so inclined, can 
readily capture several hundred weiglit in a day. 
Season much more convenient for most persons engaged in the 
fisheries.— Boston Daily Journal. 
Tue Youne ANmMAL anp Protection. — Ix the NATURALIST 
for August last, Mr. Deering advances the well known fact that 
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